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The Senate should tell the AZ Supreme Court they will release their records when they receive the routers from Maricopa County.
Without complete accountability, the courts have no place to tell the legislative branch anything.
The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an effort by the state Senate to keep secret records of its ongoing review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County that are in the possession of the contractors conducting the recount.
The high court without comment rejected the appeal filed after an appeals court and trial court both ruled the documents are public records that must be released. The court also dissolved a stay on the appeals court ruling it put in place on Aug. 24 so it could review the record and decide whether to accept the appeal.
Republicans who control the Senate have tried for months to keep secret how their contractors are conducting the recount. They argued that because the records are maintained by Senate contractors, they were not subject to public records law and that legislative immunity applies. But the appeals court in its Aug. 19 ruling rejected that argument.
The court said the main contractor, Florida company Cyber Ninjas, was subject to the records law because it was performing a core government function that the Senate farmed out.
https://www.azfamily.com/news/politics/arizona_politics/arizona-supreme-court-allows-release-of-senate-audit-records/article_ca04f6ef-a532-5203-a898-8e2bec776a9d.html?block_id=997199