Trump Judge Allows Menacing Of Arizona Drop Boxes

The Associated Press reports:

A federal judge Friday refused to bar a group from monitoring outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona’s largest county where watchers have shown up armed and in ballistic vests, saying to do so could violate the monitors’ constitutional rights.

U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi said the case remained open and that the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans could try again to make its argument against a group calling itself Clean Elections USA. A second plantiff, Voto Latino, was removed from the case.

Local and federal law enforcement have been alarmed by reports of people, including some who were masked and armed, watching 24-hour ballot boxes in Maricopa County — Arizona’s most populous county — and rural Yavapai County as midterm elections near.

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Liburdi was nominated to the federal bench by Trump in 2019. Weeks later he was narrowly advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 12-10 vote before being approved by the then-Republican controlled full Senate.

A federal judge refused to prohibit a group from monitoring outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona’s largest county, saying that doing so could violate the group’s constitutional rights. https://t.co/qajUgKefza

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 28, 2022