Although, @weareoversight has helpfully highlighted a dozen or two. (Right hand column)
Here's an interesting one: @RudyGiuliani was using noted "audit" cheerleader Christina Bobb (@OANN) as an intermediary with State Senate Pres. @FannKfann.
NOT your typical journalistic function.
BREAKING: @RudyGiuliani had "numerous" conversations in Dec. with State Senate Pres. @FannKfann "trying to get this done". PLUS, she got a personal call from Trump.
Rudy/Donald sensed progress, so they kept after her. They had gotten nowhere with Raffensperger (GA).
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A (kinda) amusing one:
Emailer Kat A. messages all 16 GOP State Senators, says a group is collecting 200-500 signatures/day to recall all of them. Will rip up petitions IF Senate hires Jovan Pulitzer for the audit.
Fann asks for patience. Oh, and please don't threaten.
IMPORTANT: Here's an email (from 4/26) where State Senate President @FannKfann tells a correspondent they can help pay for the recount/audit by going to the (dark money) Voices and Votes website.
IMPORTANT: Here's an email (from 4/26) where State Senate President @FannKfann tells a correspondent they can help pay for the recount/audit by going to the (dark money) Voices and Votes website.
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LIVE NOW: The Arizona Supreme Court is about to hear oral arguments in the case to decide whether Arizona's Civil War-era total ABORTION BAN is back in effect, or whether the 2022-passed 15-week ban superseded it (despite Leg's attempts to both regulate and keep the total ban).
Welp, PW is off today. So you are stuck with me, your intrepid court watcher, Tom Ryan. Let's get started. This hearing has been going on for 1 hour now. Logged in just in time to hear Mr. Blehm argue with Judge Hannah. It did not go well. TR
Kari Lake is NOT in the courtroom even though she is the Plaintiff. Wendy Rogers is in the galley though. Judge Hannah is now correcting Blehm on who can verify signatures on Petitions and Initiatives. TR
Not sure who this witness is. She's doing her best to understand and answer Blehm's questions about different forms of public signatures. Hannah asks Blehm to move on. TR
Well, goooooood afternoon Arizona! For all you out there keeping score on all the butt kicking going on in the MAGA litigation realm, I've got a little refresher course for you to read before we get started in Judge Tuchi's Court on the Alan "the Dersh" Dershowitz OSC hearing. TR
The hardworking journos at AZ LAW have put together this handy-dandy Sanctions Scorecard for your ease of reference. It's a lovely, hop, skip and a sneeze down Memory Lane for who is getting slapped with sanctions in MAGA land. TR arizonaslaw.blogspot.com/search?q=Tuchi
Today there is a hearing before U.S. Dist. of Ariz Judge Tuchi that begins today at 3 p.m. to determine whether Dershowitz should ALSO be held liable for sanctions that Judge Tuchi has already determined he should apply for the in court misrepresentations. TR
Of course, it *should* go without saying the "independent state legislature" theory does NOT even purport to give them the right to pass laws w/o the Governor.
Rather, it claims the COURTS cannot review/overrule the Leg in area of elections. You *still* need a valid law. PW
BREAKING:
Judge DOES ALLOW @KariLake to present evidence showing Maricopa "failed to conduct any level 1 signature verification".
He's also not impressed with ever-changing theories: "also recognizes the contradiction between this new theory & the other allegations in Count 3"
Contradiction, per Judge: "her own affiants declare that they conducted signature review at level 1."
"The Court will give such affidavits and the evidence presented at Trial the weight that each is due. Plaintiff is further bound by her concession..."
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"...that she “brings a Reyes claim, not a McEwen claim. She challenges Maricopa’s failure to act, not its action on any particular ballot.”