LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Soon Attorney General Dana Nessel could share more with Former President Donald J. Trump than simply prosecuting those claiming to be appointed electors, as some Michigan legislators file paperwork of impeachment. 

On Wednesday, state Representative James DeSana (R-Carleton) introduced articles of impeachment in a House Resolution co-sponsored by several other house members. 

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There were three articles introduced by Rep. DeSana included in the resolution: 

“Article I states that Nessel violated her Constitutional Oath of office by failing to faithfully discharge the duties of her office by failing to charge any of the individuals responsible for forging and filing fraudulent voter registrations in Muskegon.

 Article II alleges malfeasance of office and malicious prosecution of the 16 Michigan Republican Electors. Attorney General Nessel through her own public statements indicated that her motives behind her prosecution of these individuals was malicious and political and thus an abuse of her position as Attorney General.”

In July, there were 16 felony charges brought against 16 Michigan electors for their role in the 2020 presidential election. 

“The false electors’ actions undermined the public’s faith in the integrity of our elections and, we believe, also plainly violated the laws by which we administer our elections in Michigan,” Nessel said in a statement. “My department has prosecuted numerous cases of election law violations throughout my tenure, and it would be malfeasance of the greatest magnitude if my department failed to act here in the face of overwhelming evidence of an organized effort to circumvent the lawfully cast ballots of millions of Michigan voters in a presidential election.”

The third article in the resolution addresses a more recent event: “Article III and possibly the most damning charge involves a serious conflict of interest in a fraud investigation of one of the Attorney Generals friends. A conflict wall was established within the department of the attorney general that AG Nessel ignored and clearly violated by communicating with the individual being investigated for fraud about the AG departments information regarding the case.”

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Rep. Angela Rigas (R-Caledonia) has already called for accountability in regards to the third charge which involved AG Nessel accessing case documents behind an ethical firewall in a case involving friend and colleague, Traci Kornack. 

“Accountability is not a partisan issue,” she said in an email to Michigan News Source. “The people need to know their leaders are honorable at best and investigable if they fail. Nobody is above the law, even those that enforce it.”

The office of the Attorney General Responded to the claims about misconduct, contending that there was not a violation of the internal Isolation Wall Notice. 

“The Isolation Wall was established to prevent the perception of influence from the Attorney General, who had a prior professional engagement with the investigatory subject, into the investigation and subsequent charging decision and potential prosecution,” the AG’s office said in a statement. “At the time of the reported communications, the investigation had concluded and the decision not to pursue criminal charges had been completed, without influence from or consult with Attorney General Nessel. The investigation subject did not receive the reports from the Attorney General, but via a public records request pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, the same mechanism used by the opinion author at the Detroit News. The Attorney General’s review of the reports at that time was not in conflict with the isolation wall in letter nor intent.”