The yearslong saga over Nevada Republicans' attempts to overturn the state's 2020 election results for Donald Trump continued on Wednesday, with the state's highest court hearing arguments in a case about whether a lower court's dismissal of forgery charges should be overturned.

Trump lost the Silver State in 2020, but his allies hatched a plan to try to overturn the election results in part by identifying themselves as their states' true electors. Foyr years later, the fake electors have not faced any significant repercussions.

The charges relate to accusations that the GOP fake electors knowingly forged documents purporting to be the state's true 2020 electors. The Nevada attorney general's initial prosecution was dismissed in Clark County this year over concerns about the jurisdiction. 

Judge Mary Kay Holthus was unconvinced that Clark County was the appropriate place to hear the case. The state cannot re-file in another county because of a statute of limitations but will appeal the ruling.

The judge allowed the "fake electors" to file an additional legal reply that includes evidence they say was wrongly withheld by the state and could exonerate the six individuals facing felony charges.

The trial for the six Nevada Republicans facing forgery charges over their plans to subvert the results of the 2020 election is now set for next January. The trial was originally set for next week.

State prosecutors this week dismissed the defendants' arguments that their actions could not be considered criminally fraudulent because state and federal officials were not deceived by them.

Despite the criminal charges, McDonald has continued to closely embrace Trump. He appeared at a Trump campaign rally in Reno on Sunday, telling the crowd to "cast your ballot for Donald J. Trump."

The six Republicans are accused of falsifying records and each face two felony charges.

Under Nevada law, charges for filing false documents must come within three years of the offense — meaning charges would likely need to be filed by Dec. 14.

The investigation marks the first Nevada-based probe into the actions of the unauthorized slate of electors who pledged votes to Trump despite his loss.

Ford said he would continue to assist the federal Department of Justice in its investigation into the matter.

Smith's subpoena to Clark County officials asks for any and all communications to, from or involving Trump and his campaign between June 1, 2020, and January 20, 2021 — the day Trump left office.

8 News Now reported that agents seized McDonald's cell phone as part of the investigation and issued a second search warrant involving the state party secretary James DeGraffenreid, but could not find him as of Wednesday evening. 

"While the Governor is not a lawyer, he believes if you file a document with blatantly false statements with a government agency, that is a crime, or ought to be a crime," Sisolak's office said in a statement.

The report has lessons for both parties "in terms of the value of hard work for Latino voters, and who is owning debates over hard work."

As part of the plea deal, Hartle will be able to withdraw his plea, if he follows the terms of a yearlong probation, and instead plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of conspiracy to commit voting more than once in the same election.

Nevada's rapidly diversifying electorate didn't widen the Democratic margin of victory in the state's presidential election between 2016 and 2020, suggesting newly activated voters of color may not be as reliably Democratic.

A man who once described a ballot being cast in his dead wife's name as "sickening" and was cited by the Nevada Republican Party last November as evidence that massive voter fraud swayed the results of the 2020 presidential election has been charged by prosecutors with voter fraud.

Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske said her office was not consulted about the fate of two tax petitions and ultimately did not agree with Attorney General Aaron Ford's opinion — triggering a rare circumstance in which she wrote him a letter saying the petitions should remain on the 2022 ballot.