UPDATE: Eastman Moves Up Arraignment In Arizona "Fake Electors" Case To Next Week, Giuliani Continues To Hide In Plain Sight

Update, 5/9, 11am: "UPDATE: Eastman Moves Up Arraignment In Arizona "Fake Electors" Case To Next Week, Giuliani Continues To Hide In Plain Sight"

Trump legal architect John Eastman has moved up his arraignment in the Arizona "fake electors" case to next week. Meanwhile, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani remains the only one of the 18 defendants yet to be served.

Giuliani appears to be hiding in plain sight in Palm Beach and south Florida, doing a live 90-minute monologue several nights a week.

Kris Mayes' office confirms to Arizona's Law that Giuliani has yet to be served.

Eastman's arraignment will be conducted on May 17, at 9am. The other 15 defendants are scheduled for May 21 at 8:30, although one or more might also re-schedule before then.

The court docket shows placeholder trial dates in October; however, that is very likely to change.

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Original article, 4/24: "BREAKING: Arizona AG CHARGES "Fake Electors" With Felonies For 2020 Actions"

In addition to the 11 Republicans who were initially legitimately serving as Arizona's Trump slate of electors, the Attorney General has charged seven other individuals. Those people's names will be released once they are all served. (The only thing we currently know of the 7 yet-unnamed defendants are that 5 of them identify as male and 2 as female.)

Washington Post's Yvonne Wingett-Sanchez has reported that the 7 are "former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman." (That matches our previously-reported 5 male/2 female breakdown.)

Unindicted co-conspirator #1 is Trump. Unindicted co-conspirator #2 is fmr Senator Kelly Townsend, for organizing the Joint Resolution (SCR1002) declaring the AZ-11 as the real electors. (30 GOP lawmakers signed on to it.)

Unindicted co-conspirator #3 is 1 of the signers of that Concurrent Resolution and one of the organizers of the infamous Rudy Giuliani/Jenna Ellis "hearing" at a downtown Phx hotel. Several to choose from, it might be Mark Finchem.

Unindicted co-conspirator #4 is a Trump campaign atty who didn't get indicted (like Eastman, Ellis, Giuliani and Bobb), but wrote memos. That is likely Kenneth Chesebro, who had been extensively interviewed by AZ AG's office.

Unindicted co-conspirator #5 is an Arizona attorney who worked for the Trump campaign and unsuccessfully filed suit against the (legitimately elected) Democratic electors (along with the state and Maricopa County). That would be either local attorney Dennis Wilenchik or his son Jack. (Here are Jack's comments to Arizona's Law back in December 2020.

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