Posted on 12/26/2022 7:17:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Arizona Secretary of State’s office and Maricopa County on Monday petitioned a judge to sanction GOP candidate Kari Lake after her election-related lawsuit was rejected over the weekend.
On Monday, the two parties filed a motion in the Maricopa County Superior Court against Lake and her legal team.
“Courts are established by Arizona’s Constitution and statutes to resolve actual disputes between parties,” Maricopa County Deputy Attorney Thomas P. Liddy wrote Monday in a 15-page memo (pdf), asking Judge Peter Thompson for the sanctions and attorneys fees. “They do not exist so that candidates for political office can attempt to make political statements and fundraise. And they should not be used to harass political opponents and sow completely unfounded doubts about the integrity of elections. All of those things happened in this matter.”
Hobbs’s legal team joined the motion for sanctions, according to court documents.
“Enough really is enough. It is past time to end unfounded attacks on elections and unwarranted accusations against elections officials,” the memo also said. “This matter was brought without any legitimate justification, let alone a substantial one.”
The memo also asserted that Lake “and her counsel doubled down with the present action … this Court should sanction both lawyers and client under [Arizona law] 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.”
The motion asks that Lake pay $25,050 in attorney fees for Hobbs and Maricopa County.
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According to the woman in charge of the election where she herself was one of the candidates.
We know better.
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