The attorney general of Michigan issued charges against 16 individuals for their alleged involvement in a false electors scam following the 2020 election. A slate of electors from each state chooses the president of the United States.

Democratic state attorney general Dana Nessel charged the 16 with filing documents that falsely claimed Donald Trump had won the state. They allegedly “undermined the public’s faith” in the fairness of the election, she said.

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Who is Dana Nessel?

Nessel, an American politician and attorney, has been Michigan’s 54th attorney general since January 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Nessel is the first openly LGBT person to be elected to a statewide post in Michigan and the second openly lesbian woman to be elected attorney general of a state in the United States (after Maura Healey). She is also Michigan’s first elected Jew to the position of Attorney General.

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Nessel received her high school diploma from West Bloomfield High School in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, in 1987. She was an All-State soccer player. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree and the Wayne State University Law School with a doctorate in law.

Nessel spent eleven years as an associate prosecutor in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office following his graduation from law school. She served as the lead counsel in more than 1,665 cases involving murder, armed robbery, child abuse, sex crimes, carjackings, and narcotics offenses.

Nessel founded her own law business, Nessel and Kessel Law, in 2005, where she focused on general tort litigation, family law issues, civil rights claims, and criminal defense.

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Nessel successfully argued on behalf of the plaintiffs in DeBoer v. Snyder in 2014, which contested Michigan’s prohibition on the legal recognition of same-sex marriage on a national level. The case was eventually consolidated with others and appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States as Obergefell v. Hodges. She started Fair Michigan, a group that attempts to prosecute crimes of prejudice against the LGBT community, in 2016.