Maricopa County judge recuses himself from lawsuit over Senate Republicans' election audit
by Carly Roman, Associate News Editor |
The judge scheduled to oversee a legal challenge to Arizona Senate Republicans' 2020 election audit recused himself shortly before a planned hearing.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury issued an order Sunday afternoon that said he was removing himself from the case after the court received filings at 4 p.m. that mentioned new attorneys for the first time, including Chris Viskovic, who worked in Coury's office as an extern within the last five years.
Viskovic is now a junior associate at Kolodin Law Group PLLC, which is representing Florida-based cybersecurity firm Cyber Ninjas in the case, according to 12 News.
The order said the case would be reassigned but did not lay out a timeline or name a different judge.
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