Today, Just the News reported:
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday to send a piece of former GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's election lawsuit back to trial court to examine whether or not Maricopa County followed signature verification policies in 2022.
The element that has been remanded to the lower court is the most important one of the original ten: It is Kari Lake’s complaint regarding the signature sham that took the election victory from her, and gave it to Kattie Hobbs.
If that language sounds extreme, I urge you to revisit the article I wrote some weeks ago. In that piece, titled “Level Two Managers elect Katie Hobbs,” I pointed out something so obvious that it is hard to imagine how it was misunderstood by presiding Judge Peter Thompson. He ruled that Lake was belatedly disputing the rules used to analyze signatures. But to those of us who read English, it was apparent that she believed the rules were not being followed. Further, she had 3 articulate whistleblowers making that case for her.
In its order, the high court remanded the case back to the trial judge, so he can,
. . .determine whether the claim that Maricopa County failed to comply with A.R.S. § 16-550(A) fails to state a claim pursuant to Ariz. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) for reasons other than laches, or, whether Petitioner can prove her claim as alleged pursuant to A.R.S. § 16-672 and establish that 'votes [were] affected "in sufficient numbers to alter the outcome of the election"' based on a 'competent mathematical basis to conclude that the outcome would plausibly have been different, not simply an untethered assertion of uncertainty.'"
Unfortunately, Judge Thompson might dig in and dismiss the case on some other basis. However, I am not so sure. This might be a turning point?