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It wouldn't suprise me that the Mopar factory used red locktite on those allen head tapered bolts that hold the plate on I have ruin some cheaper allen wrenches trying to remove those bolts in the past Use some heat on the tranny lugs that those bolts go into first and then try loosening them up Let us know what you do

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The factory bolts that I saw years ago actually did have a type of loctite of sorts on them
They had what can best be described ad a small hole drilled in the side of the threads that had some sort of nylon thread locker in it.
I'm sure it was there to help keep the flat socket head bolt from loosening up.



As far as getting it to loosen up what I've had decent luck with is taking a hammer and round punch and smacking the head of the bolt straight in. Essentially shocking it to help break it loose.

Heat and penetrating oil help too.

If all else fails as others have said since you have a new one if you destroy the old one getting it out it's no big deal.
The aluminum shifter bracket is softer than the cast iron trans case.
Once the bracket is gone the bolts should spin out relatively easy.