On Thursday of this week, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled in favor of rightful Arizona Governor
Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who defeated Kerry Lake in the 2022 election, and granted her
request to sanction Kerry Lake's lawyers for what the court described as unequivocally
false allegations about November's election.
The court added sometimes campaigns in their attendant hyperbole, hyperbole, spill over
into the legal challenges.
But once a contest enters the judicial arena, rules of attorney ethics apply, which of course
means a lawyer cannot walk into court and openly lie about a case, which according to
this court, is what Carrie Lake's lawyers did with their election challenge lawsuit.
They lied unequivocally false is the phrase used by this Supreme Court in Arizona.
You probably already knew that, right?
I mean, the story's been out there for two days.
So why am I talking about it two days after the fact?
Well, because there's a part of this that nobody seems to be acknowledging, and that
is the fact it's mentioned in reports, but it hasn't been discussed.
And I feel like it needs that conversation first and foremost, even though, even though
the Supreme Court said, yes, we agree with you Katie Hobbs and the Arizona Secretary
of State, that they came into this court and lied.
However, we're not gonna make them pay your attorney's fees.
Like we're just gonna sanction the lawyers $2,000.
We're not even gonna sanction Carrie Lake in this particular matter.
We're just gonna sanction the lawyers two grand.
Uh, which you know, I imagine is probably nothing to them, and we're not gonna grant
you attorney's fees, even though we have determined legally that they came in violated lawyer's
ethics, ethics lied to us and to you, but they don't have to pay your legal fees.
That that is mind blowing.
I've never seen that.
Like I've never seen that when the court decides declares rules that the other side lied to
even file the lawsuit to begin with, and then to not give attorney's fees, that is absolutely
unheard of.
And it gets even worse because this is the same Supreme Court that just, uh, well, a
month and a half ago in March, ruled that all of Carrie Lake's lawsuit can be thrown
out except for one part where she's challenging the ballot signature verification process
for early voting that that can stand.
And this is the part that nobody's talking about.
As I have already repeatedly said, the judges on the Arizona
Supreme Court said, these people lied.
The lawyers lied.
Kerry Lake lied, but we're still gonna let part of the lawsuit go.
We know these people are proven liars at this point.
We've already made that ruling.
That's official.
They are liars.
But yeah, well, for the hell of it, let's just go ahead and let part of the lawsuit
continue in the lower courts until it reaches us again, and then who knows what's gonna
happen, right?
This Arizona State Supreme Court is a farce.
It's an absolute farce.
You can't sit there and tell those lawyers to their faces, you're a bunch of liars.
What you've told us is unequivocally false, but we're still gonna entertain part of it
because maybe even though you're a bunch of big fat liars, maybe you're not lying about
this one part, even though you've lied about all of these other parts that we already dismissed.
Maybe on this one, you told the truth.
Any normal court in this country, which I don't even know if we have any of those left,
would have tossed the entire thing.
They would have given attorney's fees.
This $2,000 sanction against those lawyers, that's not even a slap on the wrist.
That's literally like two hours of work for these people.
Maybe, depending on what their billable hours are, it may be half an hour.
This ruling is a joke.
It is not a punishment for those lawyers.
It is not a punishment for Carrie Lake.
It is a punishment to the state of Arizona that now has to absorb the cost of those legal
fees to fight the very claims that the court has already said.
Were once again, unequivocally false.