Arizona judge recuses himself in fake elector case over email backing Kamala Harris

A judge in Arizona on Tuesday recused himself from the fake elector case after he encouraged fellow judges to defend Vice President Kamala Harris against biased attacks that claimed she was a diversity hire.

Attorneys for Republican state Sen. Jake Hoffman urged Maricopa County Judge Bruce Cohen to recuse himself after he sent an email in August that expressed regret over not standing up for Harris when other people slammed her as a "DEI hire."

Cohen said in the email that white men must speak up when women are unfairly targeted, but did not indicate who made the snub at the vice president.

“We cannot allow our colleagues who identify as being a ‘person of color’ to stand alone when there are those (who) may claim that their ascension was an ‘equity hire’ rather than based solely upon exceptionalism,” the judge wrote, per the Associated Press.

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