A Las Vegas judge who made national headlines earlier this year when a felon appeared to tackle a judge during a sentencing hearing is making national headlines again, this time for dismissing a lawsuit against replacement electors who declared former President Donald Trump the winner of Nevada in the 2020 presidential election.
Last December, the grand jury 6 Nevada Republicans Five people — Republican State Chairman Michael McDonald, Republican National Committee member Jim DeGraffenried, Clark County Republican Chair Jesse Roe, National Committee and Douglas County Commissioner Sean Meehan, Story County Clerk Jim Hindle, and Lake Tahoe-area state party member Eileen Rice — are accused of filing and issuing false documents after casting supplementary electoral votes declaring that Trump, not Joe Biden, won Nevada’s 2020 election. Similar cases have also been filed in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
“I don’t believe I have jurisdiction over this case.”
The state capital, Carson City, is in northern Nevada, and most of the defendants live in rural areas of the state, many of whom vote Republican.
Still, state Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, sought to try the case in heavily Democratic Clark County, and a fellow prosecutor in Ford’s office, Matthew Rushbrook, argued that the entire state was harmed by the actions of so-called “fake electors.”
“You can’t contain all of this crime in one county,” he said.
The defense countered that the defendants apparently cast their 2020 electoral votes for Trump in Carson City, many of which were allegedly produced in rural Douglas County, and accused Ford of bringing the case to Clark County in hopes of finding a more friendly jury pool.
On Friday, Judge Mary Kay Holthus sided with the defense. “In my opinion, this is literally a crime that happened in another jurisdiction,” she said. “It’s something that happened up north, and it’s something that didn’t happen here.”
“I don’t believe I have jurisdiction over this case.”
Holthus also disagreed.100 percentRushbrook argued that the whole state and “society” had been harmed by the by-electors.
rear Holsus Attorney General Ford hurriedly left the building after issuing the ruling, telling reporters as he left that “the judge was wrong” and promising to appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court. The case cannot be reopened in lower Nevada courts because the three-year statute of limitations expired several months ago.
“They’re done,” said Margaret McLetchie, lawyer for defendant Jesse Roe.
As The Blaze News previously reported, in January a video circulated on social media of Deobra Redden, 30, a violent repeat offender, yelling “Oh, goddammit!” and apparently jumping onto Judge Holthus’s bench after Judge Holthus refused to sentence him to probation.
A week later, a judge sentenced him to up to four years in prison for hitting someone with a baseball bat in 2023. He had previous convictions for burglary and domestic violence-related offences, and 13 new charges were subsequently levied in connection to the attack on Holthus.
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