Tag: Kari Lake

Katie Hobbs Asks Court to Toss Kari Lake’s Election Challenge as She Previews ‘Shocking’ Evidence

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is asking a court to throw out Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s bid to challenge the 2022 mid-term election because state law requires more evidence to show that “millions of Arizonans” were disenfranchised during the Nov. 8 election. In a 317-page court filing (pdf) with the Arizona Appeals Court, Hobbs’s team…


Katie Hobbs Asks Court to Toss Kari Lake’s Election Challenge

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is asking a court to throw out Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s bid to challenge the 2022 mid-term election because state law requires more evidence to show that “millions of Arizonans” were disenfranchised during the Nov. 8 election. In a 317-page court filing (pdf) with the Arizona Appeals Court, Hobbs’s team…


Kari Lake Responds to Reports She’ll Run for US Senate

Arizona GOP candidate Kari Lake on Tuesday brushed aside speculation she might be running for Arizona’s Senate seat in 2024, following anonymously sourced reports that she might. A CNN reporter, Kate Sullivan, wrote on Twitter Monday, “I’m told Kari Lake is considering running for the US Senate seat held by Kyrsten Sinema in 2024.” Sullivan did…


Court of Appeals Agrees to Expedite Kari Lake’s 2022 Election Case

The Arizona Court of Appeals agreed to expedite consideration of Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s lawsuit alleging that the 2022 election was flawed. In a brief order, issued on Jan. 9 and made public the next day, the court ordered a reset of “the matter for conference on February 1, 2023,”  and agreed with Lake’s arguments…


Hobbs Signs LGBT Executive Order in First Official Act as Arizona Governor

In her first official act as the Governor of Arizona, Democrat Katie Hobbs signed an executive order that seeks to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in employment. According to Executive Order 2023-01, over 40 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals are reporting unfair treatment at work across the country,…


Arizona’s Hobbs Signs LGBT Executive Order in First Official Act as Governor

In her first official act as Arizona’s governor, Democrat Katie Hobbs signed an executive order that seeks to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in employment. According to Executive Order 2023-01, more than 40 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals are reporting unfair treatment at work across the country, including…


Arizona’s Hobbs Signs LGBT Executive Order in 1st Official Act as Governor

In her first official act as Arizona’s governor, Democrat Katie Hobbs signed an executive order that seeks to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in employment. According to Executive Order 2023-01, more than 40 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals are reporting unfair treatment at work across the country, including…


Arizona Supreme Court Issues Response to Kari Lake’s Election Lawsuit

The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday denied GOP candidate Kari Lake’s petition to transfer her election lawsuit to the high court, saying that it will be heard before an appeals court. “The Court notes that the Court of Appeals has entered a scheduling order directing respondents in the special action proceeding to file a response…


Alan Dershowitz Asks Judge to Be Excused From Sanctions Linked to Kari Lake Lawsuit

Retired Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz said he wasn’t part of the legal team that represented Kari Lake and Mark Finchem in connection to a lawsuit that was filed in early 2022 and later rejected. In 2022, U.S. District Court Judge John Tuchi tossed filings by Lake and fellow Republican Mark Finchem. Months later,…


Kari Lake Files Petition to Transfer Election Lawsuit to Arizona Supreme Court

Arizona GOP candidate Kari Lake filed a petition to transfer her election case from Maricopa County to the Arizona Supreme Court over the past weekend, coming as Democrat Katie Hobbs was sworn in as governor of Arizona in a ceremony. Lake’s petition claims that “evidence put forward in this case, including the changing and conflicting…