PHOENIX – Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential campaign, has pleaded not guilty in an Arizona “voter fraud” case in which she and 17 other defendants face fraud, forgery and conspiracy charges. 2020 election results.
All those charged have pleaded not guilty in Arizona. In 2023, Ellis pleaded guilty In the case of interference in the Georgian elections, in which Trump is also accused.
Trump adviser Boris Epstein and 2022 Republican Senate candidate Jim Lamon also appeared in court Tuesday for their arraignments in the case, pleading not guilty. Epstein was an attorney and adviser to the Trump campaigns in 2016 and 2020, and recently appeared in court in New York with Trump during the former president’s hush money trial. Lamon was on Trump’s list of potential voters leading up to the 2020 election.
The filing alleges that a month after the 2020 election, 11 Trump supporters gathered at the Arizona GOP headquarters in Phoenix. sign the certificate Claiming 11 Electoral College voters in Arizona, Joe Biden won the state by 10,457 votes and state officials certified his electors. The state Republican Party documented the signing of the certificate social media post He sent it to Congress and the National Archives.
Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was among those indicted by a state grand jury in April in connection with the scheme.
Ellis served as senior legal counsel for the Trump campaign from early 2019 until he stepped down in January 2021. He was part of the legal team that advised him when he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. has been sued, criticized and indicted in many jurisdictions.
During Ellis’ 2023 guilty plea in Georgia, he said, wiping away tears, that he “didn’t do my due diligence” in other states.
“I have failed to exercise due diligence in trying to file appeals in several states, including Georgia,” Ellis said in Fulton County Superior Court last year. “Had I known then what I know now, I would have refused to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on this whole experience with deep regret.”
Colorado Supreme Court Justice in 2023 condemned Ellis, of Colorado, for violating a state rule of professional conduct that prohibits “misrepresentation” by attorneys. His license to practice law in Colorado was recently suspended for three years.