Merrick Garland

Ok so apparently I was wrong! The previous AD for Arizona Mark Brnovich shelved it (by which I mean threw in the trash the recommendation from his officers to bring together a grand jury) until he got booted from office by 281 votes.

So if you really think that your vote doesn’t matter, you are incredibly mistaken.

I think the attorney general wasn’t appointed right away or something, but it still took quite a while.

Maybe getting them to plea bargain to turn on Trump is the plan.

It doesn’t say. There are state suits in Nevada, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, and now Arizona. He’s indicted in Georgia, so it’s probably pretty likely that he’s unindicted in at least some of them, leaving potential for future prosecution.

I’m not a lawyer or a law expert, so this is purely a guess. By having him unindicted, it means he can’t be found not-guilty right now due to lack of evidence. I think that leaves him open to being indicted later once everyone else gets convicted. If AZ and the 4 other states convict the co-conspirators with Trump as unindicted (except in Georgia where he is indicted), that creates a much stronger case to bring up full indictment charges.

He’s listed as an unindicted co conspirator. The reason for not indicting him can come down to local laws. The law in Georgia on conspiracy has a lower bar, which is why he got charged there.