Federal Judge Sanctions Vaseline Woman’s Lawyers

The Arizona Republic reports:

In a blistering 30-page opinion, a federal judge ordered sanctions against the attorneys of Kari Lake and Mark Finchem in their lawsuit against voting machines, hoping to deter “similarly baseless suits in the future.”

Lake and Finchem, Trump-endorsed Republicans who failed in their bids for governor and secretary of state, filed suit in April in an attempt to block Maricopa and Pima counties from using any electronic device to cast or count votes.

While the plaintiffs sought “massive, perhaps unprecedented federal judicial intervention” to change Arizona’s election system before the recent election, “they never had a factual basis or legal theory that came anywhere close to meeting that burden,” the judge wrote.

Read the full article. The suit was filed by lawyers Alan Dershowitz and Kurt Olsen, the latter of whom was party to the 2020 presidential election suit that was rejected by the Supreme Court. The amount of yesterday’s sanction hasn’t yet been specified. Vaseline Woman has a separate lawsuit pending against Maricopa County.