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Mon Dec 26, 2022, 01:47 PM Dec 2022

Katie Hobbs Asks Judge to Sanction Defeated Rival Kari Lake and Her Lawyers [View all]

This was a frivolous lawsuit and Kari Lake and her attorneys need to be sanctioned



https://lawandcrime.com/2022-midterms/enough-really-is-enough-arizona-governor-elect-katie-hobbs-asks-judge-to-sanction-defeated-rival-kari-lake-and-her-lawyers/

Arizona’s Governor-elect Katie Hobbs (D) asked a judge on Monday to sanction defeated rival Kari Lake (R) and her lawyers for filing a lawsuit aiming to overturn the results of the Grand Canyon State’s 2022 gubernatorial midterms.

“Courts are established by Arizona’s Constitution and statutes to resolve actual disputes between parties,” Maricopa County Deputy Attorney Thomas P. Liddy wrote in a 15-page memo. “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 Maricopa County’s motion for sanctions, court records show.

“Enough really is enough. It is past time to end unfounded attacks on elections and unwarranted accusations against elections officials,” the memo states. “This matter was brought without any legitimate justification, let alone a substantial one.”
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