Controversial Breonna Taylor attorney general joins Trump's election 'fraud' case

Republican attorney condemned over investigation into Breonna Taylor’s death, joins Trump lawsuit on false claims

Daniel Cameron, the Kentucky state attorney whose investigation into Breonna Taylor’s death proved controversial, was among ten state attorneys to support a Trump campaign lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleging election “fraud”.  

Submitting an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court on Monday, the Republican attorney and nine others alleged that Pennsylvania's high court had "overstepped its constitutional  responsibility” by allowing mail ballots postmarked by election day to be counted within three days of 3 November.

The Supreme Court had, in a decision last month, dismissed a case brought by Republicans to stop the extended deadline for mail-in ballots, which had been approved by Pennsylvania’s supreme court.  

Mr Cameron and state attorneys from Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas added that the mail-in ballot deadline in Pennsylvania had "exacerbated the risk of mail-in ballot fraud" by "unscrupulous actors."

Those claims come without basis, and within a week of Joe Biden’s win over Mr Trump in the Rust Belt state, which he carried by 46,000 votes, the Courier Journal reported.

The Republican president and his allies have, meanwhile, made false allegations about voter “fraud” and refused to concede.  

Mr Cameron, in a statement to Twitter, said on Monday that he joined the amicus briefing because “what happens in other states” mattered.

"While this did not occur in Kentucky, what happens in other states during a presidential election matters to Kentuckians because we are electing our President and Vice President," Mr Cameron stated.

"My interest in this is not about courts dictating who wins or loses, but about transparency and rule of law issues that should give all Americans the confidence that the election was conducted fairly.”

“Ultimately, we all have to accept the results, and it will be hard for some people to do that if they think issues like these go unexplored."

Those comments, which come despite no official reports of irregularities in the electoral process, follow his decision last month to block the release of proceedings and testimony in the case of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was killed by Kentucky police earlier this year.

Mr Cameron had overseen an investigation into Taylor’s death, which led to a Kentucky grand jury’s decision not to charge any officers involved with her murder, sparking controversy.

Jurors said afterwards that Mr Cameron had not directed them to consider such charges.