When they are not suing each other they can manage to join forces to sue the real enemy of democracy, the Arizona Republican Party.
The Associated Press reports, Brnovich, Hobbs urge court to reject GOP early ballot suit:
Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs both urged the state Supreme Court Friday not to accept a petition filed by the Arizona Republican Party asking to strike down early voting laws used by 90% of voters.
Brnovich and Hobbs laid out their arguments in separate filings with the Supreme Court.
Brnovich said the court has no jurisdiction to take on the question but did not take a position on the GOP’s argument that early voting is unconstitutional [coward]. Lawyers for Hobbs defended the early voting laws, writing, “Arizona’s early voting system is secure, efficient, and complies with the Arizona Constitution.”
The Arizona Republican Party and its secretary, Yvonne Cahill, filed the Supreme Court petition last month. It asks the justices to get rid of all early voting or at least eliminate the no-excuse absentee balloting system Arizona adopted in 1991 and steadily expanded ever since.
Kari Lake shows support for AZGOP lawsuit arguing that vote by mail is “unconstitutional.” Lake voted by mail in every single election from the 2006 general to 2020 primary, according to her voter file. She automatically received a mail ballot until removing herself in May 2021. https://t.co/zrrYD8oVo5
— Dillon Rosenblatt (@DillonReedRose) March 10, 2022
The GOP lawsuit also argues that Hobbs erred by failing to include procedures for early ballot signature verification in the elections procedure manual and by including rules for ballot drop boxes.
Brnovich sidestepped that question and asked the justices to decide instead whether the 2019 elections procedure manual is valid.
Is he arguing that the elections procedure manual is valid? If not, like the AZ GQP he has a laches problem – the time to challenge the elections procedure manual would have been before any elections in 2020, not some three years after its issuance and multiple elections conducted under the elections procedure manual.
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UPDATE: Just as I thought, our prtisan hack AG “Nunchucks” is using this lawsuit for more political performance art. Howard Fischer has the details the sparse AP report left out, “Arizona AG uses lawsuit to criticize two Democrats”, https://tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/arizona-ag-uses-lawsuit-to-criticize-two-democrats/article_291571d8-a219-11ec-a48d-1bde15ad124b.html
Attorney General Mark Brnovich is using a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s early voting laws to instead attack two Democrats.
In filings with the Arizona Supreme Court late Friday, Brnovich, a Republican, sidestepped the question of whether he believes the state constitution permits people to cast their ballots by mail and ahead of election day. That is the heart of the complaint by the Arizona Republican Party to which he was responding.
Instead, the state’s top prosecutor who is running for U.S. Senate is telling the Arizona Supreme Court that portions of the “signature verification guide” put out by Secretary of State Katie Hobbs are “inconsistent with Arizona election law.” And Brnovich, who has repeatedly sparred with Hobbs over election issues, also said her policies on the use of ballot drop boxes is illegal.
But Brnovich is not limiting his criticism of Democrats in his new court filing to just Hobbs who is running for governor.
He also is using the filing to takes some swipes at Adrian Fontes, the former Maricopa County recorder who is running for secretary of state, suggesting that the signature verification process for early ballots “became less diligent” after he took office. And that critique in the legal papers comes even though Fontes is not a party to the litigation.
Brnovich, in his filing, told the justices the guidance Hobbs has provided to county election officials on signature verification is flawed.
[B]rnovich also pointed to the results of a special review of 100 random signatures ordered by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Randall Warner in one of many unsuccessful lawsuits filed by Republicans to void the election results that showed Joe Biden won the state.
In that case, an expert for challengers found six signatures inconclusive while the one for the county said 11 fell into that category. Brnovich said the fact that even the county’s own expert found 11 percent were inconclusive suggest that “improvement is needed” in the verification process.
But what neither expert found any signs of forgery of simulation in any of the ballots.
More to the point — and unmentioned by Brnovich — is the judge said every one of the reviewed ballots listed a phone number that matched a phone number already on file.
“The evidence does not show that these affidavits are fraudulent, or that someone other than the voter signed them,” Warner ruled. And the judge said there also was “no evidence … that there was any misconduct, impropriety, or violation of Arizona law with respect to the review of the ballots.”
[So Brovich is violsting his duty of cndor to the court, and is perpetrating a fraud upon the cpourt, for which he should face bar disciplinr, again.]
As I indicated above, Brnovich also has a laches problem – the time to challenge the elections procedure manual would have been before any elections in 2020, not some three years after its issuance and multiple elections conducted under the elections procedure manual.
He is attempting to feed the Big Lie nonsense that the election was stolen from Donald Trump with the GQP crazy base. This is irresponsible (remember that he certified the 2020 election results).
Several people have called upon this partisan hack to resign from office. Every day “Nunchucks” makes the case for why he is unfit to serve as attorney general of the state of Arizona.