Kari Lake and her attorneys are asking the Arizona Supreme Courtroom to not sanction them
for his or her election problem case as a result of Lake “actually believes that
electoral misconduct and unlawful votes decided the result of the
2022 gubernatorial election.”

The Supreme Courtroom invited the
defendants in Lake’s case, Gov. Katie Hobbs and Secretary of State
Adrian Fontes, to request sanctions towards Lake and her authorized crew for
bringing frivolous claims to the courts that aren’t supported by the
info. 

Lake is a Trump-endorsed Republican
and 2020 election denier who misplaced the November race for Arizona governor
to Hobbs by greater than 17,000 votes. For the reason that election, Lake has
continued to claim, with out proof, that she is the true governor and
that her loss was owed to intentional malfeasance from election
officers who didn’t comply with correct procedures.

She has claimed that in Maricopa County, ballots that had mismatching signatures have been counted when they need to have been thrown out, greater than 35,000 unlawful ballots have been added in with authorized ones and poll printer and tabulator errors suppressed the Republican vote on Election Day. 

A trial courtroom in December and an appellate courtroom in February
each shot down all of Lake’s claims as both improper to deliver earlier than
the courtroom in an election problem or discovered that they weren’t backed by
the info. The state Supreme Courtroom in March dismissed all of Lake’s claims
aside from one, relating to signature verification processes, and despatched
that declare again to the trial courtroom for evaluate, saying that the decrease
courtroom had improperly dismissed it. 

The entire courts denied her request
to both oust Hobbs and make Lake governor or to name for a brand new
election, with the appellate courtroom writing in its resolution that Lake’s
claims of voter disenfranchisement have been “fairly merely, sheer
hypothesis.”

Not solely did Lake ask the Supreme
Courtroom to not sanction her within the Wednesday submitting, however her attorneys,
Scottsdale divorce lawyer Bryan Blehm and D.C. company employment
lawyer Kurt Olsen, requested that the courtroom rethink one among Lake’s claims
that it already dismissed, relating to chain-of-custody guidelines for
ballots. 

Motions for reconsideration are usually not allowed at this stage within the courtroom proceedings. 

Lake included extra alleged proof
in her Wednesday submitting, one thing additionally usually not allowed within the
appeals course of, than she did in her unique petition to the Supreme
Courtroom. 

She says that the proof proves
unlawful ballots have been injected in with authorized ones in Maricopa County,
despite the fact that each poll envelope has a novel barcode related to a
legally registered voter. 

However the Supreme Courtroom, when it dominated
to permit the defendants to ask for sanctions, identified that the
“document doesn’t replicate that 35,563 unaccounted ballots have been added to
the overall rely.”

Lake and her attorneys cite a number of
paperwork within the courtroom submitting that they declare show the injection of
unlawful ballots occurred, however the decrease courts didn’t purchase these
arguments, saying that the discrepancy between an preliminary tough estimate
of the variety of early ballots forged on Election Day and the ultimate
full rely didn’t represent proof that unlawful ballots have been
inserted into the counting course of. 

The defendants within the case have till April 12 to answer Lake’s request to not be sanctioned. 

The Supreme Courtroom instructed Hobbs and
Fontes that they may solely ask for sanctions based mostly on factual claims in
the case, not based mostly on the authorized arguments made by Lake’s attorneys. 

Maricopa County Superior Courtroom Decide
Peter Thompson, who presided over the preliminary election problem trial
in December, had scheduled briefings within the case after studying that the
Supreme Courtroom had ordered him to rethink Lake’s signature
verification declare. 

He has since canceled these briefings till the Supreme Courtroom guidelines on attainable sanctions.