Kari Lake’s legal team ordered to pay $122,200 in fines

Daily Docket — Friday, July 14
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After the U.S. Supreme Court Ended Its Term, Experts and Elected Officials React ([link removed])
By Devon Hesano

* This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear ([link removed]) a racial gerrymandering case out of South Carolina on Oct. 11. A lower federal court previously struck down the state's congressional map for intentionally discriminating against Black voters. Republican legislators appealed the decision to the Supreme Court.
* This afternoon, failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake asked ([link removed]) for her lawsuit contesting her loss in the 2022 gubernatorial election to be transferred to the Arizona Supreme Court due to "extraordinary new evidence." Lake wants to bypass the appellate court after the trial court rejected her case.
* Also this afternoon, a federal court ordered ([link removed]) Lake's legal team to pay $122,200 to Maricopa County for bringing a frivolous lawsuit seeking to ban electronic vote tabulators in Arizona. Lake's attorneys were also previously sanctioned ([link removed]) for this case.
* Yesterday, the U.S. House Committee on House Administration approved ([link removed]) House Republicans’ American Confidence in Elections Act ([link removed]) , a sweeping “election integrity” bill that committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) calls the “most conservative” election bill to be considered in decades. The committee voted 8-4 on party lines to send the bill to the full House for consideration.

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