Attorneys in a new court filing say Lake's legal challenge was 'frivolous' and that her team knew before the trial started they could not prove their case.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Calling Kari Lake's bid to overturn the election"frivolous" and lacking"legal and factual merit," attorneys who successfully defended against her claims want a judge to order Lake and her attorneys to pay nearly $700,000 in legal fees and costs they incurred.
"Indeed, the entire purpose of this litigation was to plant baseless seeds of doubt in the electorate's mind about the integrity and security of the 2022 general election in Maricopa County," he said."And while it is one thing to do so on TV or social media sites, it is another thing entirely to attempt to use the imprimatur of the courts to try to achieve that goal."
Lake originally had filed 10 separate charges in her bid to have Thompson either install her as governor or, in the alternative, require Maricopa County to conduct a new election, this time under the direction of a special master appointed by the judge. But Thompson said the best Lake's legal team could do was opine that it was"common sense" that such widespread failures must have been the result of intentional conduct. And the judge said no witness had any personal knowledge to back that up.
Separate rules that govern the professional conduct of attorneys bar lawyers from bringing suit"unless there is a good faith basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous." And those rules require lawyers to do more than accept a client's claim but must independently investigate the facts and evidence.
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