A federal grand jury is looking into the role that Rudy Giuliani and other lawyers for Donald Trump may have played in a scheme to steal the 2020 election.
Republicans in seven states came up with unauthorized lists of alternate electors who would support the former president's efforts to cling to power.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that a federal criminal investigation had zeroed in on Trump's team of lawyers.
The author of the memo was also the author of a memo that provided a legal rationale for former Vice President Mike Pence to reject electors from states such as Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
The White House supported the effort to put forward alternate slates.
According to a text message sent three days after the election and obtained by the congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, MarkMeadows said he loved the plan.
The lawyer for the Trump campaign, Kenneth Chesebro, wrote memos about the alternate electors and claimed that they could be recognized as the legitimate electors on January 6.
They did not respond to requests for comment.
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