Attorney General Kris Mayes Accused of Civil Rights Felony

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes

It appears Attorney General Kris Mayes will be at the center of another lawsuit, this time over alleged civil rights violations.

Attorney Mike Davis — former chief counsel for nominations within the Senate Judiciary Committee and member of the Article III Project and the Internet Accountability Project — also accused Mayes of stealing the Arizona attorney general’s seat from Congressman-elect Abe Hamadeh by disenfranchising Maricopa County voters. Davis said he plans to sue Mayes for her recent action against certain supporters of Donald Trump.

“In one week, you will go from the hunter to the hunted,” said Davis. “Conspiracy against rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) is a serious federal civil-rights felony. Lawyer up.”

The cited law prohibits conspiracy by two or more individuals to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” another for exercising their constitutional or lawful rights.

Mayes was declared the victor over Hamadeh by less than 300 votes in 2022.

Davis threatened litigation in response to Mayes sending a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland over the weekend requesting Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case file on the 2020 presidential election.

In her letter, Mayes said that Smith’s case file would ensure the prosecution of 18 individuals who supported Donald Trump’s attempt in 2020 to challenge the presidential election results.

Those 18 individuals include Arizona’s 11 past electors for Trump: former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward; Turning Point Action COO Tyler Bowyer; Arizona Federation of Republican Women member Nancy Cottle; State Senators Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern; former congressional candidate Jim Lamon; former Cochise County Republican Committee chair Robert Montgomery; former Gila County Republican Party leader Samuel Moorhead; Ahwatukee Republican Women member Loraine Pellegrino; and former Arizona Republican Party leader Greg Safsten.

“I have held steadfast to prosecuting the grand jury’s indictment because those who tried to subvert democracy in 2020 must be held accountable,” said Mayes.

The Trump electors and backers each face nine felony counts related to fraud, forgery, and conspiracy. A grand jury indicted the defendants last April.

Mayes made it clear following Trump’s reelection that she wouldn’t modify or drop the case, despite ongoing controversies over the nature of the case and those ruling on it.

Last November, reports emerged that Mayes relied on a plan crafted by a dark money-funded leftist nonprofit to prosecute Trump’s 2020 electors and backers: States United Democracy Center (SUDC). SUDC was part of the notorious “shadow campaign” that took credit for influencing the 2020 election by changing election rules and laws, and controlling media coverage and the flow of information. Some of their advisory board members went on to receive appointments in the administration they helped secure.

Also in November, the judge on Mayes’ case against the Trump electors, Bruce Cohen, recused himself after the publication of his emails in which he demanded all other judges and commissioners defend Kamala Harris. Cohen had taken offense to the characterization of Harris as a “DEI hire” following her selection as the Democratic presidential candidate, and compared her critics to the Nazis.

Cohen denied that his recusal marked an admission of bias in the case, and noted that his initial email was followed by an apology.

“As noted in the subject email, the same cry for decency and respect would have been made about disparaging comments from either political sphere,” stated Cohen. “Out of a commitment to justice, even the appearance of bias cannot be allowed to undermine the fundamental fairness that is extended by the court to all who come before it.”

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16 Comments

  1. Many of the civil rights violations holds the defendant personally liable. If this statute is similar to others designed to curtail government employees from committing civil rights violations, the Arizona AG could be paying out of her personal pocket. The last I saw, the Arizona AG is paid around $90K per year. If this claim is true, a nice eight figure judgement would warn other leftist from such heinous activities. Watch whoever is tapped for the Arizona USAA, they will be the key keeper.

  2. I predict this baseless lawsuit will be thrown out on a motion to dismiss, as it should be. All these comments make clear that they neither understand the law nor believe in the rule of law.

  3. Hopefully they can wrap illegitimate Gov Hobbs into the Conspiracy and they can be cellmates.

    Play Stupid Games……Win Stupid Prizes

  4. Civil rights violations are no joke. They can result in years of jail time, if the defendant is found guilty. (See USC 18 Sections 241 – 248). Mayes may be out of office by the time this case works its way through the courts but, if convicted, she could be spending some of her retirement years in a jail cell. And a conviction could make lawsuits to recover damages a real possibility.

    But even before the trial, these kinds of charges can have serious monetary and other consequences to the accused. Good defense attorneys are not cheap so defendants can go broke defending themselves. That’s why Democrats choose to engage in lawfare against Republicans. And vice versa.

  5. Mayes is SO POLITICAL, and absolutely SO UNQUALIFIED to be the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the State of Arizona, it’s simply mind-boggling. How much other real-world stuff ….that affects the ordinary people of AZ is being left behind by her prioritizing her politcal bullsh*t? The LDS weenies in the AZ Legislature need to take their testosterone shots, and send this Libtard poseur back to her college classroom.

  6. the string of political actions being presented on all fronts – is really quite amazing! Not that we’ve not felt it to our bones in watching politics as it was.. its still amazing – no kidding – that’s what they were doing and would be doing and still want to do..selling out the nation at all levels – a Californication on the national level. California burns from the actions or lack of actions by those politicos – but they have a green street sweeper fleet – the nation so close – not out of the woods yet.. and in question from the effects of all of these fornications. Time will soon tell.

  7. Most voters in Arizona do not recognize Chris Mayes as a legitimate State Attorney General. Massive voter fraud was ignored when Abe Hamadeh filed court actions to expose obvious manipulations of the ballot count. Mayes is an abuser of her ill-gotten position and needs to be impeached.

  8. By the time this works its way through the courts it won’t matter any more. Mayes and Hobbs will have been out of office for 20 years

  9. At least in Arizona somebody is fighting back against lawfare, unlike the rest of the country. The charges against the 18 challenging the election are ridiculous. Twisting the law to make their actions criminal is not justice, it’s persecution for having a difference of opinion.

  10. Accused is one thing; tried and convicted is another. I won’t hold my breath. Both she and Hobbs should have been recalled early on.

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