{"id":1788171,"date":"2022-12-27T17:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788171"},"modified":"2022-12-27T17:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:19:26","slug":"judge-rejects-sanctions-against-kari-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rejects-sanctions-against-kari-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rejects Sanctions against Kari Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-rejects-sanctions-against-kari-lake%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788171&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Arizona Republican Party candidate was not sanctioned by a judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kari-lake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kari Lake<\/a> in her recently tossed 2022 election lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of last month\u2019s governor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>This ruling was issued Tuesday and is a blow for Katie Hobbs (D), Arizona Governor-elect, and Maricopa County who sought to as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kari-lake-could-be-on-hook-for-big-payday-benefiting-dem-lawyer-from-steele-dossier-debacle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much as $700,000 in penalties<\/a> to cover the attorneys\u2019 fees and costs from Lake and her attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that each side believes firmly in its position with great conviction,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonaslaw.blogspot.com\/2022\/12\/sanctions-scorecard-keeping-track-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The judge explained that his dismissal of Lake\u2019s case does not equate to determining that Lake\u2019s claims were \u201cgroundless and presented in bad faith.\u201d He also added: \u201cAny legal decision must be based on the law and facts rather than subjective beliefs or partisan opinions, no matter how strongly held.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs was awarded $33,000 in taxable expenses by the judge and Hobbs was proclaimed the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Lake, a former journalist, sued Hobbs, Maricopa County and Maricopa County. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/arizona-two-counties-delay-election-certification-as-ag-issues-letter-concerning-statutory-violations-in-maricopa-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">problems<\/a> After the results revealed that Hobbs had lost the election by about 17,000 votes, she was elected secretary of state for Arizona on November 8. Hobbs is currently Arizona\u2019s secretary of state, the top elections official in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson initially dismissed eight out of 10 claims in Lake\u2019s lawsuit but allowed two claims to proceed that had to do with allegations of intentional misconduct related to malfunctioning ballot printers and a failure to follow ballot chain-of-custody procedures.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief trial in Phoenix,\u00a0the judge determined on Saturday that Lake and the witnesses she called to testify <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/4531\/638074764564181393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed to make an adequate case<\/a>, even after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kari-lake-scores-legal-win-in-maricopa-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">granted limited ballot inspections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lake spoke to Steve Bannon, a former Trump advisor, about his experience. \u201cWar Room\u201d She should be shown <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v22mdka-lake-hobbs-ignored-all-press-and-public-debates-because-she-knew-she-could-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans to file her appeal this week<\/a>. Hobbs\u2019 inauguration is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/katie-hobbs-innauguration-date-and-committee\/75-7a2ea9d1-c0c2-4060-864f-155b12c73651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set for January 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge denied sanctions against Arizona Republican candidate Kari Lake in her recently tossed 2022 election lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of last month\u2019s governor\u2019s race. The ruling, issued Tuesday, is a blow to Arizona Governor-elect Katie Hobbs (D) and Maricopa County, who sought as much as $700,000 in penalties to cover the attorneys\u2019 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1788174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,5387,8210,8211,5009,5036,6195],"class_list":["post-1788171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-judge","tag-kari","tag-lake","tag-rejects","tag-sanctions","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}