Arizona GOP May Face Sanctions for Filing Lawsuit Contradicted by Audit, Judge Suggests

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Source: Law and Crime

Arizona GOP May Face Sanctions for Filing Lawsuit Contradicted by Audit, Judge Suggests

ADAM KLASFELD Dec 22nd, 2020, 2:09 pm

The Arizona Republican Party could face court sanctions for filing a lawsuit even though the state's audit debunked its allegations, a judge suggested in a ruling tossing the case.

"What exactly the Arizona Republican Party and its attorney knew or had reason to know about the status of hand count audit, at the time of filing the complaint, will be an issue on the application for attorneys' fees," Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John R. Hannah, Jr. wrote in a footnote of a 13-page ruling on Monday.

"The Republican Party appears to have had constructive knowledge, at least, of facts that contradicted the allegations in the complaint," he added.

The Arizona GOP's chairwoman Kelli Ward fought and lost multiple lawsuits trying to topple President-elect Joe Biden's victory in her state, before appearing to lose faith in democracy as a form of government in a tweet urging outgoing President Donald Trump to "cross the Rubicon."

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"The Republican Party appears to have had constructive knowledge, at least, of facts that contradicted the allegations in the complaint."

An Arizona judge entertaining sanctions against the state's GOP, whose chair urged Trump to "cross the Rubicon."

Link to tweet

[Me.]

1. May

thinking about it, considering, threatening.....

HOw about just doing?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Because it has to be done by means of a separate motion.

This was a warning, obviously, but in general a judge won't rule on sanctions or attorneys' fees without a specific motion asking for them (the judge has to know how much to award, for starters).

[mpcamb]

3. It's a nation wide-question- Why have there been no Contempt charges?

This has wasted court time, public money and been repetitively thrown out of court.
This has been a program of futile time-wasting, showboating and stalling.
Somebody, somewhere call them on it make somebody's ass sit in court and pay for it!

Doing nothing is why republican pull this shit and get away with it.

[AZ8theist]

4. Chemtrail Kelli belongs in a padded cell......

[TigressDem]

5. Cross the Rubicon

That is an ancient reference.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=cross+the+Rubicon

Julius Caesar's crossing the Rubicon river on January 10, 49 BC precipitated the Roman Civil War, which ultimately led to Caesar's becoming dictator and the rise of the imperial era of Rome. Caesar had been appointed to a governorship over a region that ranged from southern Gaul to Illyricum. Wikipedia

Yes, Sir, become the dictator that you were always meant to be.

[Cha]

6. KR

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

7. It will be great if Kelli Ward can be held to be personally liable

for damages, personally beggared by enormous court costs, and driven from politics forever.

She's a fascist extremist dedicated to establishing an authoritarian one party dictatorship in the US, by means of violent overthrow of democracy and the US government.

[Initech]

8. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

9. You just can't even spell crazy without R-AZ

Chemtrail Kelly has long been deserving of any and all ridicule directed at her.

She's one of those people that comes to mind when someone says "They can't be any dumber" and takes it as a challenge.

As Stephen Colbert said of Arizona: "The meth lab of democracy"


We're trying, but it takes a lot of work and there are a LOT of crazies.