{"id":1788188,"date":"2022-12-27T17:16:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788188"},"modified":"2022-12-27T17:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:49:23","slug":"arizona-judge-denies-request-to-sanction-kari-lake-over-election-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-judge-denies-request-to-sanction-kari-lake-over-election-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Judge Denies Request for Sanction Kari lake over Election Lawsuit"},"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\">22<\/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%2Farizona-judge-denies-request-to-sanction-kari-lake-over-election-lawsuit%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=1788188&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>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-arizona\">Arizona<\/a> A request by Katie Hobbs, Democratic gubernatorial Candidate, was denied by a judge Dec. 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maricopa-county\">Maricopa County<\/a> to sanction Republican candidate Kari Lake and her legal team\u00a0over her lawsuit challenging the results of\u00a0the 2022 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Peter Thompson wrote that while Lake didn\u2019t meet the burden of providing evidence of her election-related claims, her lawsuit didn\u2019t meet the standard for imposing sanctions. Thompson, however, ruled that Lake must reimburse\u00a0Hobbs $33,040 for some expenses because she didn\u2019t win her case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that each side believes firmly in its position with great conviction,\u201d The judge ruled<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/4567\/638077387424442779\">pdf<\/a>) on Dec. 27. \u201cThe fact that Plaintiff failed to meet the burden of clear and convincing evidence required \u2026 does not equate to a finding that her claims were, or were not, groundless and presented in bad faith. Any 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>Thompson had ruled that there wasn\u2019t enough evidence of misconduct by Maricopa County to overturn election results in the county. Thompson granted two of the 10 election claims to be tried, just days after Lake had filed her lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 26, Maricopa County officials filed a motion against Lake, her legal team, and others. Hobbs, as secretary-of-state, joined the motion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCourts are established by Arizona\u2019s Constitution and statutes to resolve actual disputes between parties,\u201d Thomas P. Liddy is the Maricopa County Deputy Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/katie-hobbs-and-maricopa-county-ask-judge-for-sanctions-against-kari-lake-her-lawyers_4945853.html\">wrote<\/a> December 26, in a 15 page memo, Thompson asked for sanctions and attorney fees. \u201cThey do not exist so that candidates for political office can attempt to make political statements and fundraise,\u201d Liddy continued. \u201cAnd they should not be used to harass political opponents and sow completely unfounded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona A request by Katie Hobbs, Democratic gubernatorial Candidate, was denied by a judge Dec. 27 Maricopa County to sanction Republican candidate Kari Lake and her legal team\u00a0over her lawsuit challenging the results of\u00a0the 2022 general election. Judge Peter Thompson wrote that while Lake didn\u2019t meet the burden of providing evidence of her election-related &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1752963,"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":[547],"tags":[4472,5458,4775,3728,5387,8210,8211,4585,3819,4451,5223],"class_list":["post-1788188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-arizona","tag-bongino","tag-denies","tag-election","tag-judge","tag-kari","tag-lake","tag-lawsuit","tag-report","tag-request","tag-sanction"],"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\/1788188","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}