Current Events > Hobbs, Maricopa County file for more sanctions against Kari Lake's legal team

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https://www.12news.com/article/news/politics/elections/governor-elect-katie-hobbs-maricopa-county-file-
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Kari Lake and her legal team could be facing sanctions for an election-challenging lawsuit that Maricopa County calls "groundless" and "frivolous."

After losing the gubernatorial race by roughly 17,000 votes, Lake filed two lawsuits aimed at overturning the election results and redoing the election in Maricopa County.

Of Lake's 10 claims, only two made it to trial after a judge dismissed the rest.

Lake didnt offer evidence to back her claims of widespread, intentional misconduct on Election Day at her two-day trial on Dec. 21-22 challenging her loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the state's governors race

Lake also never proved her claim that printer problems at Maricopa County polling places were intentional acts that would have changed the races outcome had they not occurred, said Abha Khanna, a lawyer representing Hobbs.

Now, Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County have filed for sanctions against Lake and her team. Both parties motioned for the sanctions on Monday morning, the day after Christmas.

That whole trial was ridiculous. Lawyers who knowingly file these frivolous lawsuits need to be disbarred.

CableZL posted...

Lawyers who knowingly file these frivolous lawsuits need to be disbarred.

I'm okay with that.

Good. I don't want to see this same dumb circus happening after every election. Our democracy can't survive if the integrity of our elections goes away, so we need to put a swift and hard stop to these election deniers.

Hopefully this outbreak of election denial is just a phase, rather than a long-term issue.

Needs to be consequences for this kind of extremely obvious poor sportsmanship. All it does is reduce faith in the election process (unjustifiably, at that) and tie up court time that could be better spent on more legitimate matters.

I don't believe in firing a lawsuit shotgun after every election just hoping something changes the outcome. It's silly and unproductive.

Maybe be a better candidate next time.