Democrat attorneys general prosecuted Trump supporters for challenging the 2020 election.
Now internal memos show they didn't write the charges themselves.
What those memos reveal about who signed the prosecution orders will leave Democrats with nowhere to hide.
Norm Eisen was Barack Obama's White House ethics czar, then his ambassador to the Czech Republic, and the special counsel to House Democrats during Trump's first impeachment.
After that, he founded the States United Democracy Center – a nonprofit launched in 2020 specifically because its founders expected Trump to lose the election and fight the results.
He wrote three books targeting Trump. He co-authored a New York Times essay titled "How to Convict Trump." He attended Hands Off rallies protesting the Trump administration as recently as 2025.
This is the man whose organization was handed government prosecution authority over Trump's supporters.
In June 2023, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison – the former Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee – signed a contract appointing States United Democracy Center Senior VP Christine Sun and the organization itself as "Special Attorneys to serve at the pleasure of the Attorney General."
Not outside consultants. A government appointment.
Sun and SUDC received no compensation and took no reimbursements. Their client was Ellison, and their funding came from left-wing donors whose names appear nowhere in any court filing.
In Arizona, it went further.
AG Kris Mayes' chief of staff accepted SUDC's offer to work pro bono – and a 47-page SUDC memo was then attached to criminal search warrants targeting Trump allies.
That memo didn't just describe what happened in 2020. It named the charges to bring, laid out the prosecution strategy, and anticipated every defense the targets would raise.
Prosecutors accidentally handed it over during discovery. They hadn't meant to.
The Democrat Lawfare Money Trail Runs Straight to Kris Mayes
SUDC calls itself nonpartisan. Its own tax records say otherwise.
The group was born as the Voter Protection Program – launched in 2020 in anticipation of a Trump defeat and a legal fight over the results. Its founding press release, still live on the SUDC website, describes it as "a nonpartisan initiative of the Progressive State Leadership Committee."
PSLC and the Democratic Attorneys General Association share the same leadership, the same address, and the same payroll – DAGA covers PSLC's employee salaries and benefits, including those of PSLC's president, who simultaneously serves as DAGA's executive director. Over the years, PSLC has sent more than $11 million back to DAGA.
The organization writing prosecution strategy against Trump supporters and the Democrat Party's attorney general arm are, for all practical purposes, the same entity.
Then the money started flowing to the prosecutors themselves.
Two months after Mayes agreed to let SUDC work her office pro bono, DAGA sent $50,000 to her personal legal defense fund.
Eighteen months later – one month after more than a dozen Trump supporters were arrested in Arizona – DAGA sent her $150,000 more.
Trump 2020 official Christina Bobb's attorney argued in court filings that SUDC, through related organizations, indirectly paid Mayes roughly $190,000 while she was using SUDC's strategy to arrest Trump's allies.
A DOJ investigation into that arrangement is ongoing.
The States United Democracy Center Ran a Multistate Prosecution Network Across Eight Democrat AGs
Minnesota and Arizona weren't outliers.
Michigan coordinated with SUDC on indictments that a judge later threw out. Nevada AG Aaron Ford signed a formal contract giving SUDC pro bono prosecutorial authority through 2025 – and records obtained by Judicial Watch show his office coordinated directly with Jack Smith's special counsel operation, later hiding those communications behind "common interest privilege."
SUDC circulated a coordination agreement collecting signatures from more than a dozen attorneys general and governors across the country, including the AGs of Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Vermont, along with secretaries of state in Arizona, Maine, and Minnesota.
A donor-funded, politically directed prosecution operation running simultaneously across multiple states, targeting the same people: Trump's lawyers, electors, and allies.
Mike Davis, who spent two decades vetting federal judges for the Senate Judiciary Committee, called it what it is: "This is highly inappropriate for left-wing nonprofits to become the prosecutors against their political enemies."
Every Case Collapsed and the Network Is Still Running
Arizona's Supreme Court threw out Mayes' indictments. Michigan's charges were dismissed. Georgia's Fani Willis was disqualified. Jack Smith's federal prosecution died when Trump won.
The lawfare failed. The machine didn't.
Bobb – who faced prosecution herself before Trump pardoned her – isn't treating this as a victory lap.
"Exchanging governmental authority for political access and funding is a surefire way to ensure everyday Americans lose their voice and end up in prison for disagreeing with those in power," she told Just the News.
She's warning that the next wave isn't aimed at Trump's inner circle. It's aimed at conservative elected officials who think this fight is behind them.
"These elected leaders will have a rude awakening when this prosecution network targets them and no one cares," she said.
The donor funding is intact. The coordination agreements are still signed. Eisen never answered a single question and nobody made him.
Sources:
- Ashe Short and John Solomon, "Anti-Trump lawyer's nonprofit secretly aided state prosecutions of Trump supporters, memos show," Just the News, June 8, 2026.
- Fred Lucas, "Nonprofit Laid Out Road Map for Prosecuting Trump Supporters, and Arizona's AG Seems to Have Followed It," The Daily Signal, November 21, 2024.
- "Arizona Supreme Court Deals Major Blow To Attorney General Mayes' Trump Electors Case," AZ Free News, June 2026.
- "Defendant in 'fake electors' case seeks to disqualify Arizona AG," Arizona Capitol Times, November 2025.
- "Who is Norm Eisen? Meet the anti-Trump attorney repping FBI agents suing the DOJ," Fox News, February 8, 2025.
