The US judge disqualifies the Nevada prosecutor from four cases in Trump’s coup

By Sarah N. Lynch

Washington (Reuters) -a judge of the US District Court. UU. He disqualified the main federal prosecutor of Nevada, Sigal Chattaah on Tuesday, supervising four criminal cases, treating another setback to the maneuvers of the administration of President Donald Trump to maintain his elections in power.

The American district judge David Campbell discovered that Chattaah is not serving validly as an American lawyer and, therefore, “his participation in these cases would be illegal.”

The Department of Justice declined to comment.

Chattaah, who recently served as president of Nevada for the Republican National Committee, was appointed at the end of March to serve a period of 120 days as an interim prosecutor of the United States.

When his mandate was about to expire around July 26, the Trump administration extended its appointment under a different federal law, making it the US prosecutor. Uu. A functions, a measure that is effectively from the United States District Court to name someone to serve on paper.

Federal public defenders in Nevada presented the legal challenge to the chattaah authority in four separate criminal cases, arguing that it should be disqualified because their appointment was illegal and requested that the cases be dismissed.

Chattaah is one of several US prosecutors who have been appointed through unusual methods throughout the country. The Department of Justice conducted similar personnel movements to keep other main prosecutors in their place, even with Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, in New Jersey, John Sarcone in the Norte District of New York, Bilal Ensayli in the Central District of California and Ryan Ellison in New Mexico.

In August, a federal judge ruled that Haba’s appointment was illegal and was not eligible to participate in any case. The Department of Justice is appealing that decision.

Reuters reported Tuesday that Chattaah has asked the FBI to investigate the discredited republican statements about electoral fraud in the 2020 elections, an investigation that hopes will influence the careers of Congress and catch the Democrats.

(Sarah N. Lynch report; Scott Malone edition, Daniel Wallis and Lincoln Feast).