Turns out Katie Hobbs didn't show up at court today as she was ordered by the judge. This was to work out the next step in Kari Lake's lawsuit against the Arizona election process. Hobbs was ordered by the judge, but being one of the defendants, she would not be required to personally be there if her attorney appeared in her place... which he did.
Seems like Hobbs is required to file a motion to dismiss by Thursday, if she wants, and Lake must have a response to the motion by Saturday. If the Hobbs motion to dismiss is not granted, the trial would be the following week.
Here's a video with some of the details... start at 16:30 of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bURGA7FdqaE#t=16m30sEDIT: Here is another video with slightly different info -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvK32fYbVxc.BAHHHHAAAHHHAAA
Hey bud you wanna bet with me who's gonna be sworn in as governor to your state come Jan 2nd?
I'll give you 100 to 1 odds on a gentleman's bet.
To wit.....
If the court turns over the peoples choice and makes moron pretty pixie face Kari Kraken Lake the winner, I'm an idiot 100 times over.
If Katie Hobbs is sworn in Jan 2nd, because of course she will be, you are an idiot just 1 time (even though you are an idiot 1000 times over)
Talk about idiots, you can't even say BAHHAHAHAHAHAHA correctly.
Be that as it may, here are more details about the hearing. It's about truth and honesty in election politics, not about who wins or loses. And the judge knows it.
Judge Delivers Massive Legal Victory for Kari LakeWhen the midterm races were called, Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was proclaimed to have defeated Republican challenger Kari Lake by just over 17,000 votes in the Nov. 8 election. Lake did not skip a beat objecting to the result, as the election day and days after were marred by malfunctions and holdups that could have skewed the tabulations.
Lake filed a lawsuit naming her objections in an effort to show she had the votes to win, and also the lack of integrity in the Arizona voting system.
Lake's attorneys argued in her lawsuit filed last week that the widespread ballot printer and tabulator issues on Election Day affecting 131 polling locations (59 percent of the total) suppressed the candidate's vote totals. And, as the nation watched online, hours-long lines developed due to malfunctions at multiple locations throughout Maricopa County.
Lake's team clearly wants to get a better sense of what exactly caused so many machines to, essentially, simultaneously go down on Election Day, and seek to determine whether negligence or malfeasance was involved. Maricopa County has said that 71 sites were impacted, which is roughly one-third of all the sites. The county also said a setting on the ballot printers in question caused the ballot tabulators to not be able to read the ballots, Western Journal reports.
As Lake's arguments were heard in court, testimony was given as to the details of the malfunctions, holdups, and redirecting of citizens to alternate voting areas.
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And now, Lake’s lawsuit will have even more data with which to make their case against the flawed voting system in the state. Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake won a legal victory Friday when the judge overseeing her legal challenge of November’s election granted her team access to review ballots cast.
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EDIT: Note that SCOTUS is watching this case. Even if Kari Lake doesn't win, there will be enough evidence brought that SCOTUS will be encouraged to make a more investigation directed examination of the 2020 election with regard to the Brunson lawsuit they have before them.