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Maricopa Co. attorneys work over Xmas, file motion today for sanctions against Kari Lake's lawyers [1]
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Date: 2022-12-26
Kari Lake's victory party on election night. After two lawsuits, the image hasn't changed.
After a judge ruled on Saturday that Kari Lake’s attorneys did not prove she lost the Arizona Governor’s race to Katie Hobbs because election officials intentionally tampered with Maricopa County’s voting machines and the ballots’ chain of custody, Lake said immediately that she would appeal the decision to the Arizona Supreme Court.
Monday she tweeted a claim that Peter Thompson, the Republican-appointed Maricopa County Judge who issued the ruling ending Lake’s misguided quest, was being coached by Marc Elias, the democracy champion. His team beat down most of trump’s flimsy lawsuits after the 2020 election, and they assisted Maricopa County and Katie Hobbs’ office last week. Almost immediately she deleted that tweet.
x UPDATE: @KariLake has just deleted her tweet accusing Judge Thompson of having @marceelias "ghostwriting" his ruling denying Lake's Election Contest claims.
Her amplifying the baseless accusations was not good for her in the pending sanctions proceedings.
PW
https://t.co/cHhr6IN2tk — AZ's Law (@arizonaslaw) December 26, 2022
Lake and her attorneys, one who previously represented the inept Cyber Ninjas “audit” scammers (doing such a great job they were fined out of existence), probably had second thoughts about accusing a judge and lawyers of ethical violations, especially after those same lawyers dropped another motion today, asking the same Judge she accused of wrongdoing to sanction Lake’s attorneys, as well as make them pay court costs for last week’s stupid stunt.
Here is the 15-page motion seeking sanctions, which even we non-lawyers can understand. It’s clear, to the point, and says what we all knew: “There is no question that Plaintiff’s claims here were both ‘groundless’ and ‘not made in good faith.’” Lake didn’t have one piece of evidence to support her claims, just conspiracies from MAGA nitwits, and the two-day hearing was a waste of time and taxpayers’ money.
This Court should sanction both lawyers and client under A.R.S. § 12-349 to impart to them the seriousness of their misuse of the courts to seek to undermine Arizona elections and impugn hardworking elections workers and officials for purely political – not legal – purposes.
Lake’s same attorneys were sanctioned after they filed their first baseless lawsuit contesting the election results. The ruling Saturday dismissed her second lawsuit, with the same result—no findings to change the election outcome. Now it remains to be seen if the second case will also end in sanctions and fines.
Plaintiff and her attorneys knew—or, at least, they should have known—that they had no witness testimony or evidence that would allow them to meet the Court’s required showing, yet they refused to voluntarily dismiss this action.
Today’s motion provides a solid overview of this entire mess—from Lake’s admission before the election that she’d only accept the outcome if she wins, to her post-election lies and threats against election workers, the courts, and political figures. Katie Hobbs remained calm and dignified throughout the entire shitstorm, while Lake smeared and swore at challengers and election officials, most of them Republicans—very professional. Arizonans made the right choice for Governor! I can’t say it any better than the motion’s conclusion:
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