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Arizona’s highest court just delivered a stinging rebuke to Attorney General Kris Mayes and her politically-motivated prosecution of Trump electors, rejecting her appeal to revive a case that collapsed under the weight of its own partisan agenda. The Arizona Supreme Court denied Mayes’ bid to continue her lawfare campaign against 18 individuals including Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, and Christina Bobb, who were indicted for challenging the 2020 election results and casting an alternative slate of electors. This wasn’t about justice; it was about punishing political opponents for daring to question an election that millions of Americans still believe was stolen.
The case unraveled when a judge allowed defendants to argue the charges were politically motivated, and later ruled that prosecutors improperly presented the case to a grand jury while failing to inform jurors of the Electoral Count Act, which actually exonerates the defendants. An appeals court refused to even consider the case last September, and now the state Supreme Court has slammed the door shut on Mayes’ desperate appeal. But here’s where it gets even more disturbing. Mayes didn’t build this case herself; she allegedly took her marching orders from the States United Democracy Center, a far-left nonprofit founded by Obama-era operative Norm Eisen that literally sent her a memo in July 2023 outlining the entire prosecution, including “potential criminal charges” and “potential defenses,” plus a deadline to arrange indictments before the statute of limitations expired. In exchange for following their playbook, the Democratic Attorneys General Association reportedly gave Mayes $200,000, according to a whistleblower memorandum filed by Christina Bobb with the Department of Justice. This is what lawfare looks like in practice: dark money groups writing the script, partisan AGs executing the plan, and American citizens caught in the crossfire of a political vendetta. Representative Abe Hamadeh has demanded a federal investigation into this illegal scheme, but so far the feds have taken no action. Why is the DOJ silent when there’s evidence of bribery and prosecutorial misconduct? Mayes now says she’ll return the case to a new grand jury, proving she learned nothing from this humiliating defeat. The message from Arizona’s Supreme Court is clear: weaponizing the justice system against political opponents has no place in a free society, no matter how much dark money is backing the prosecution.
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