Facing disqualification, acting US attorney still trying to relitigate 2020 election
One of several acting U.S. attorneys controversially installed by the Trump administration to sidestep the U.S. Senate is apparently prepared to keep relitigating President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, even as Nevada criminal defendants insist she should be disqualified from prosecuting cases ...
The latest update on Sigal Chattah's activities in recent months comes from Reuters, which reported that she has asked Director Kash Patel's FBI to "investigate debunked Republican claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election, a probe she hopes will influence congressional races and ensnare Democrats" ... Chattah additionally aims to "exonerate" Republican fake electors, raising ethics and conflict of interest issues because she represented one of the accused and both the Nevada GOP and the Republican National Committee.
Chattah has made waves in office since she was named acting U.S. attorney, after she resigned from her interim role but before her 120-day limit technically expired. Trump and the DOJ put her right back in place under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act — sidestepping, "potentially in perpetuity," the constitutional requirement that permanent U.S. attorneys be appointed with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate and, in the examples of Habba in New Jersey and John Sarcone in New York, evading federal courts' refusals to appoint them in the meantime ...
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/acting-trump-us-attorney-facing-possible-disqualification-is-still-trying-to-relitigate-trump-2020-election-loss/
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