Arizona’s Supreme Court has rejected failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s challenge to her election loss but kept the case somewhat alive by sending one of seven of Lake’s claims back to a county judge to review.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson rejected Lake’s wild-eyed claim that she was the rightful governor of Arizona.
Of course, Lake somehow sees this as a win, but the former news anchor is like Trump in a skirt, so she can’t take the L.
She was quickly reminded of what had happened:
AZ Central reports:
Those included claims that tens of thousands of ballots were “injected” into the election, which Lake called an “undisputed fact” in her lawsuit, as well as alleging that problems with tabulation machines disenfranchised “thousands” of voters.
The opinion said Lake’s challenges were “insufficient to warrant the requested relief under Arizona or federal law.”
The sixth claim:
The Supreme Court did not evaluate Lake’s signature claim on its merit, only on the legal justifications offered by prior courts. The court’s order requires Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson to evaluate that single element of Lake’s case again to determine if the claim was properly dismissed previously, or if Lake can prove “votes (were) affected ‘in sufficient numbers to alter the outcome of the election.'”
The Supreme Court quoted the appeals court ruling, saying that to prove her claim, Lake must provide a “competent mathematical basis to conclude that the outcome would plausibly have been different, not simply an untethered assertion of uncertainty.”
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican, said in response to the ruling, “I, of course, have the utmost respect for both the people sitting on the court and the court as an institution, and we’ll now proceed and win, again, for about the 30th time.”
If the signatures are looked at, I bet there would be more ballots for Hobbs than for the filter queen.
