The Biden administration’s Justice Department interacted with Democrat state attorney general’s offices that prosecuted or considered prosecuting 2020 alternate electors, according to public record responses. 

These contingent electors were in place to back Donald Trump if any of his election challenges were sustained in states that Joe Biden won. 

In November, Trump pardoned the alternate electors among more than 70 people involved in challenging the 2020 election. However, Democrat state attorneys general from Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin vowed to continue their state prosecutions of the electors. 

Presidential pardons are generally for federal charges. However, defendants have argued the federal government effectively outsourced the prosecution regarding a federal election. Charges in each state against alternate electors involve forgery, impersonating a public official, and attempting to file false documents.

In December, former special counsel Jack Smith, who charged Trump with conspiracy in the election case, told the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door deposition that he didn’t talk to state attorneys general, but his staff may have. 

Documents obtained by The Daily Signal through public records requests show interaction between the federal and state prosecutors on these cases. 

On Jan. 7, 2022, Tim O’Shea of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin assured Wisconsin Deputy Attorney General Eric........

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