Incoming Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs accused failed Republican candidate Kari Lake of knowingly waging “unfounded attacks” over the legitimacy of the 2022 election and has asked the court to intervene.
Hobbs filed papers Monday asking a judge for the Superior Court of Arizona’s Maricopa County to sanction Lake and her legal team from making more false accusations against election officials in Maricopa County, the most populated county in the state.
“Enough really is enough. It is past time to end unfounded attacks on elections and unwarranted accusations against elections officials,” Hobbs’s team wrote in the filing.
Lake had already sued Hobbs on the basis that the race was stolen from her in Maricopa County. Lake lost by 17,000 votes, and the court rejected her claim that she was the real winner. Lake has yet to concede after seven weeks.
"She has not simply failed to publicly acknowledge the election results. Instead, she filed a groundless, seventy-page election contest lawsuit against the governor-elect, the secretary of state, and Maricopa County and several of its elected officials and employees (but no other county or its employees), thereby dragging them and this court into this frivolous pursuit," the filing states.
Hobbs accused the Trump-endorsed former local news anchor of never intending to concede the election regardless of whether she suspected foul play or not.
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