Howard Fischer reports, Lawyers who beat Lake challenge want $700K in fees: Calling her bid to overturn the election “frivolous” and lacking “legal and factual merit,” attorneys who successfully defended against her claims want Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson to order Kari Lake and her attorneys to pay nearly $700,000 in legal fees … Read more
The Maricopa Judge who heard Lake’s election contest, issued his findings on the two-day trial earlier today (PDF of Ruling). He rejected Lake’s contest of the election and permitted the Defense to file a motion in support of Rule 11 sanctions against the Plaintiff and her attorneys. The Judge’s Ruling was cogently reasoned and gave … Read more
The Judge in Hamadeh’s election contest listened to about 3 hours of testimony from the parties and ruled from the bench that there was insufficient evidence to prove Hamadeh’s contest of the election result. This is the end of the line for Hamadeh’s efforts to overturn the will of the Arizona voters. Hamadeh’s attorney indicated … Read more
This report should not be a surprise to all the sane and decent members of the Arizona Political Sphere. January 6 collaborators (traitors) Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar continued their descent into the political pit of loathsomeness with their vote (along with 26 other fringe reactionary depraved individuals) against the Respect for Child Survivors Act, … Read more
I watched most of the trial via live stream and followed a few local Twitter live-tweets of the trial (shout out to @Arizonaslaw and @Garrett_Archer for excellent blow-by-blows), and read the pleadings and motion practice. My conclusions as a retired trial attorney are that Lake utterly failed to meet the burden laid out clearly by … Read more