Judge Orders AZ GOP To Pay $18,000 For Its Flimsy Election Fraud Suit

[demmiblue]

The Arizona Republican Party tried and failed to help ex-President Donald Trump steal the 2020 election-and now they get to shell out $18,000 for the pleasure.

Arizona state Judge John Hannah on Friday ordered the Arizona GOP and their attorneys to pay Secretary of State Katie Hobbs the $18,000 in legal fees that they had burned at taxpayers’ expense in its suit demanding an audit of Maricopa County’s ballots.

Hannah stated in his order that the Arizona GOP had “made no serious pre-filing effort to determine the validity of” their claims, which were based on Trump’s lies about election fraud and vote counting machines.

“‘Public mistrust’ is a political issue, not a legal or factual basis for litigation,” Hannah wrote.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-orders-az-gop-to-pay-18000-for-its-flimsy-election-fraud-suit

[Omnipresent]

1. 😂

[sheshe2]

2. Excellent!

[lagomorph777]

3. More of this around the country, please.

[empedocles]

6. Yes, yes

[Hortensis]

7. Yes!

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. I'm so old, I remember when Republicans railed against frivolous lawsuits.

Just another position that they've shitcanned....along with "states rights", "family values", and "law and order". Today's GOP stands for nothing except power for themselves and no one else.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. made no serious pre-filing effort to determine the validity of their claims

Is literally the entire Reich-Wing Fantasy World apparatus in a nutshell.

[world wide wally]

8. Sounds like the "BIG LIE GUY" just wanted to incite a riot thinking this would somehow

change the results of the election.

as if...