Thread by @RileySnyder

Sturman: You are asking, as a preliminary matter to throw out 1,400,000 votes on the chance that somewhere around 258 people voted who should not have

Sturman says she's "really struggling" with idea of throwing out the election, says doing so would cause "very serious harm to public, disenfranchising the 1.4 million people who did vote....and the public interest is keeping people in office.

Sturman says she does not see herself granting a preliminary injunction based on the record.

"The civil remedy of throwing out an election is just a shocking ask."

Sturman officially denies motion to strike AB4 down as unconstitutional, officially denies preliminary injunction request. Says vote dilution concept is insufficient & no likelihood of success on merits

Sturman: As a matter of public policy, this is just a bad idea because the public does not have an interest in having every member, every person who ran for election three weeks ago run again

That's it for the hearing - to be clear, case not dismissed yet, fyi

For those asking what's next, there's a pending motion for summary judgement that the state opted not to contest today. So expect that to come up in a hearing sometime next week