Judicial Watch, a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation focusing on integrity in government, has filed a lawsuit against Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for her communications with former Special Counsel Jack Smith.
In its lawsuit, Judicial Watch alleges that on “January 13, 2025 several media outlets reported that Attorney General Mayes had formally requested case documents from U.S. Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal investigation into President Donald Trump regarding the 2020 presidential election.”
The Arizona Daily Independent reported that 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.
Judicial Watch filed the Arizona Public Records Law complaint in the Superior Court of Arizona after the attorney general failed to respond to a January 13, 2025, request for:
Any communications and/or documents with Jack Smith and/or the DOJ Special Counsel group/team from January 1, 2022, to the completion of this request.
“Collusion against President Trump by Democratic politicians with Jack Smith and the weaponized Biden Justice Department are of great public interest,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “Attorney General Mayes is acting as if she has something to hide.”
In April Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against Mayes, who seemed to have used her office for political purposes in threatening a prosecution of President Trump on the eve of the 2024 presidential election. Only one document was found (and kept secret) relating to a criminal investigation, while dozens of media-related documents were revealed.
In March Judicial Watch sued the Justice Department for details of any investigations, inquiries, or referrals concerning potential misconduct of any person working for Special Counsel Jack Smith.
In March Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis was ordered to turn over 212 pages of records to a state court judge. The court also ordered Willis to detail how the records were found and the reason for withholding them from the public. The records were belatedly disclosed in response to a Judicial Watch request and lawsuit for communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee. In January Judicial Watch was awarded $21,578 for “attorney’s fees and costs” incurred in the case. The court previously found Willis in default and stated: “The Court finds Defendant [Willis, in her official capacity] is in default and has been since 11 April 2024.”
In January, a federal court ordered the Justice Department to provide Judicial Watch information on communications between Special Counsel Jack Smith and Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis regarding the prosecution of then-former President Donald Trump. In May, the Justice Department was directed to search text messages from the Special Counsel’s Office for responsive records.
Governor Hobbs, Attorney General Mayes Secretively Outsourced Authority to Leftist DC Group
In May, it was discovered that Mayes has relied on a plan from a dark money-fueled leftist nonprofit to prosecute president-elect Donald Trump’s supporters.
That nonprofit, States United Democracy Center (“SUDC,” formerly the “Voter Protection Program”), delivered a 50-page plan to Mayes to prosecute Trump’s 2020 electors and backers for their “fake elector scheme,” as first reported by the Daily Signal. SUDC was also credited by mainstream media as part of the “shadow cabal” that ensured Trump’s loss in 2020.
Before being installed into the AG's office, illegitimate @KrisMayes had never tried a case before.
So what does a climate change professor do when she wants to target conservatives, but has no idea how to do it?
She delegates to a far-left non-profit. https://t.co/WBefhoMlPt
— Abe Hamadeh War Room (@AbeWarRoom) November 22, 2024
Mayes has kept her vow to oppose any conservative executive orders and legislative efforts from a Trump administration.
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