Arizona governor seeks ethics review of former attorney general who withheld records debunking election-fraud claims
, signed by Hobbs’s general counsel, Bo Dul, calls the conduct “harmful to our democracy, our State, and the legal profession itself.”
The state bar has received at least eight complaints against Brnovich related to his office’s probe of the 2020 election, said a spokesman for the association, which regulates the professional conduct of lawyers and has the power to reprimand or disbar its members.Brnovich’s Democratic successor, Kris Mayes, released the documents to The Post after numerous requests, lodged initially while Brnovich was in office.
Brnovich marshaled the resources of his office to investigate those claims while he was competing with MAGA-aligned candidates in a GOP primary for U.S. Senate. He lost that primary in August and left the attorney general’s office in January.“The people of Arizona had a right to know this information before the 2022 election," Mayes said in an interview with The Post earlier this week."Maricopa County election officials had a right to know that they were cleared of wrongdoing.
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