Arizona Attorney General Launches Desperate AZ Supreme Court Bid to Revive Sham 2020 Electors Case Amid Bribery Scandal and Potential Federal Investigation
Mayes will ask the Arizona Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that would have sent the case back to a grand jury, 12News confirmed Friday.
The Friday deadline was set by the Arizona Supreme Court after Mayes asked for time to decide on how to respond to a lower court ruling that had stalled the case for the last six months.
In a statement released later Friday, Mayes said:
As Arizona’s top law enforcement officer and top prosecutor, it’s my job to uphold the law and protect Arizonans. An independent grand jury of ordinary Arizonans found that there was sufficient cause to charge the defendants with the alleged crimes. These defendants were charged based on two things: the facts and the law. We remain squarely focused on ensuring the defendants are held accountable because there is nothing more important than enforcing the rule of law.
In April, 18 individuals, including Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, RNC attorney Christina Bobb, conservative attorney John Eastman, and Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, were indicted by Kris Mayes’ grand jury for challenging the stolen 2020 election and casting an alternative slate of electors for President Trump.
The charges include nine counts of conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and forgery. “Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” Mayes’s indictment alleged. President Trump was named “Unindicted Coconspirator 1.”
But her case fell apart after a far-left judge allowed the defendants to argue that the charges are politically motivated. The same judge later recused himself after he was busted bashing white men and making demands that other judges in Arizona support Kamala Harris against her conservative critics.
A judge later ruled that state prosecutors improperly presented the case to a grand jury and failed to inform jurors of the Electoral Count Act, which dictates the rules of electoral vote counting and exonerates the defendants. An appeals court sided with the lower court judge, refusing even to consider the case in September.
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