Supreme Court rejects Crosby's (R) appeal over legislative immunity in election certification case
Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby cannot claim he has legislative immunity as he defends himself in a felony case stemming from his refusal to certify the 2022 election after the Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to hear his appeal.
Last year, the appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that Crosby was not protected by legislative immunity when he and fellow Republican Supervisor Peggy Judd refused to certify the results of Cochise County’s election by the deadline set in state law. Supervisor Ann English, a Democrat, was the sole member who dissented and voted to proceed with certification.
Crosby hoped the high court would take up the matter, but it declined to do so without comment.
GOP county supervisors across Arizona faced pressure to not certify the 2022 election results based on evidence-free claims by Republican candidates of election fraud in Maricopa County, where support for Democratic candidates like Katie Hobbs and Kris Mayes led them to narrow victories. The Cochise County Board of Supervisors only certified the results after being ordered by a judge to do so, but after the Nov. 28 certification deadline, putting the county’s votes at risk of not being counted.
https://azmirror.com/briefs/supreme-court-rejects-crosbys-appeal-over-legislative-immunity-in-election-certification-case/