On Monday, a judge ruled against Kari Lake's last claim in a misguided attempt to overturn the 2022 election for Governor. This follows a three-day trial which began with Lake's own eyewitness confirming that signature verifications were being performed, which kind of wrecked the whole case.

Tomorrow, defendants get to argue that Lake should pay for their costs to defend against this conspiracy-theory-fueled nonsense. Lake has only until 5 PM on Wednesday to argue against any such charges.

Interim Ruling (PDF) from "AZ Law": https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23821194/cv2022-095403-5222023-minute-entry-re-ruling.pdf

Other updates from May concerning Kari Lake from "AZ Law": https://arizonaslaw.blogspot.com/2023/05/update-kari-lake-tells-judge-she-may.html

Coverage of day one of the trial gives a hint on the direction of the case: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/takeaway-from-day-one-of-kari-lakes-second-trial-lakes-losing-streak-continues/

❝The court heard from other witnesses including two members of a fringe political action group ... they discussed a 24/7 livestream of the signature verification process, which Lake has to prove did not occur for her claims to be successful in court.

#KariLake #KariLakeLost #AZGovernor #Arizona #AZGQP #AZGOP #GOP

Also, Arizona's GOP Senate leader, Sonny Borrelli, invented the authority to tell county election officials to ignore the law.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/arizona-attorney-general-issues-opinion-regarding-hand-counting-gop-leader-spreads-distrust/

This is pinned to the text of #SCR1037 (which is not law according to the AZ Constitution): https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/1R/laws/scr1037.pdf

This move was, generally, not well received except for fringe proponents of the so-called "independent state legislature" theory.

• https://twitter.com/JenAFifield/status/1660706293722800128
• https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1660699556856868864
• https://twitter.com/tomryanlaw/status/1660723467015303168

❝Sonny Borrelli is just trying to [confuse with nonsense] the Counties into thinking this is a law. The Counties know better. What an embarrassment Borelli is.

#SonnyBorrelli #Borrelli