GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cases dismissed. After roughly two years of litigation, charges against 15 people who had been alleged 'fake electors' for then-Republican candidate Donald Trump in Michigan's 2020 election have now been dropped.

54A District Court Judge Kristen Simmons made the decision in Lansing Tuesday morning.

"I believe that they were executing their constitutional right to seek redress, and that's based on the statements of all of the people's witnesses," Simmons said.

Simmons, an appointee of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, essentially threw out the cases brought by Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office. Addressing reporters after the hearing, Nessel called the decision "disappointing."

"This was, in my belief, a coordinated attempt to overturn the will

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