Attorneys for defeated gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake are asking a judge not to impose nearly $700,000 in sanctions on them.
Attorneys for defeated gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake are asking a judge not to impose nearly $700,000 in sanctions on them, arguing the fees would further erode trust in elections.
"Indeed, the entire purpose of this case was to plant baseless seeds of doubt in the electorate's mind about the integrity and security of the 2022 General Election in Maricopa County," attorneys for the county wrote in their argument to Thompson. Lake's attorneys late Monday responded that their lawsuit was legitimate, in part because Thompson advanced two of Lake's claims to trial, even as he dismissed eight others. The trial resulted in a Christmas Eve ruling rejecting Lake's case and declaring Hobbs the winner of the governor's race.
They disputed the county's contention that the case was evidence-free, pointing to the numerous witnesses they presented. "A court setting such a margin aside, as far as the Court has been able to determine, has never been done in the history of the United States," Thompson wrote in his Dec. 24 ruling.
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