Attorney General Mayes Accused Of Using School Resources Against Trump

March 4, 2025 ADI Staff Reporter
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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes holds partisan event at public school.

The state’s chief law officer is using school resources to influence future elections against President Donald Trump.

Attorney General Kris Mayes is hosting a “community impact hearing” with three other states’ attorneys general regarding the federal firings and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) funding cuts on Wednesday at the Central High School auditorium. State law prohibits the use of school resources — including buildings — to influence the outcomes of elections.

“These reckless firings of Arizonans and arbitrary cuts to critical federal services are outrageous, unacceptable, and deeply infuriating,” said Mayes. “Arizonans deserve to be heard — these firings and funding freezes are disrupting lives, straining workplaces, and harming communities and household budgets across the state.”

Per the attorney general’s press release issued last week, these community impact hearings will create a multistate effort to discuss “the real-world impacts” of policies set forth by Trump and Elon Musk.

The state law prohibiting the use of school resources to influence election outcomes does allow for the use of school resources for government-sponsored forums or debates if “the government sponsor remains impartial and the events are purely informational and provide an equal opportunity to all viewpoints.” However, the law defines “government-sponsored forum or debate” to have the distinct purpose of “inform[ing] the public about an issue or proposition that is before the voters.”

The law goes on to define influencing election outcomes as “supporting or opposing a candidate for nomination or election to public office.”

This same section of state law also requires the attorney general to publish and distribute guidelines on this law to all school districts and charter schools.

Joining Mayes will be the attorneys general for Minnesota, New Mexico, and Oregon.

The community impact hearing is scheduled for Wednesday. It will be the first in a series, according to an announcement last week by the attorney general’s office.

Tim La Sota, a Phoenix attorney specializing in election law, said Mayes appeared to be violating the spirit of the statute.

“Our taxpayer-funded public schools should not be at the disposal of politicians to hold partisan political rallies,” said La Sota. “If Kris Mayes’ politicking actions do not already violate the statute, the statute should be amended.”

Since Trump’s inauguration, Mayes has focused her office’s efforts on challenging the Trump administration’s efforts. The attorney general joined lawsuits against the end to birthright citizenship, federal funding reductions and eliminations, and DOGE.

Of the 40 press releases issued by Mayes’ office since Trump took office, 23 were about the Trump administration.

As of Sunday, DOGE reported its estimated savings to be around $105 billion in asset sales, contract or lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions. DOGE further estimated the amount saved per taxpayer to come out to $652 (per 161 million individual federal taxpayers).

DOGE issues updates to its estimated savings calculations once a week.

According to the Office of Personnel Management, about 75,000 federal employees took up the Trump administration’s offer of a deferred resignation earlier this month.

The Trump administration executed mass firings of the 30,000 probationary federal employees beginning Valentine’s Day. Thousands were fired before a federal judge put a stop to that order last week. In light of that ruling, the Office of Personnel Management advised agencies of their final authority on firing employees.

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12 Comments

  2. The next election is too far away (and still no major changes to avoid being stolen …again). Where is the recall process for Hobbs and AG Mayes?

  4. Once Again, AG Mayes demonstrates her IGNORANCE of both State and Federal Law.

    AG Mayes should have learned in the 1st Year in Law School about the separation of State Law vs Federal Law.

    SNL should have a plethora of comedic material just involving Mayes’ ignorant (and Illegal) stunts.

  5. Democrats just showed how despicable and hate-driven they are last night. Mayes is no different.

  6. This woman is an embarrassment to this state. We are NOT left wing loons here, for the most part and she just can’t read the room. She has got to go!

  7. I realize that Kris Mayes only holds the office of AZ AG because a few thousand votes were not allowed to be counted by a feckless political ‘judge’, but how did she interpret that circumstance to mean she has a mandate to act as an untethered potentate? Apparently there is no limit to her arrogance.

  9. What laws, the democrats don’t care about no laws…..they aren’t for them they are for everyone else. They hate us and the country and want us all in re-education camps and eating bugs. Those for AG are probably the worst of the worst. Rayfield and Ellison are some of if not the worst AG’s in the world. You just can’t fix stupid because in this case, stupid is an infection of liberalism.

  10. As the SNL skit ‘Weekend Update’ was a parody of the news, so Mayes appears to be a parody of an AG.

  11. What an ignorant fool. This is supposed to be the state’s Attorney General who has turned the office into a partisan DemonRat infested mess. Meanwhile Arizonans keep getting scammed while they blow our hard earned tax dollars on this garbage. The election to flush that toilet can’t come soon enough!

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