Kris Mayes, the leftist attorney general in Arizona, orchestrated a grand jury indictment against supporters of President Donald Trump for allegedly trying to overturn the state’s 2020 election results back in the day.
The original case was thrown out of court, and the state Supreme Court left it there.
Now Mayes is trying to resurrect the claim from its grave.
Illegitimate @KrisMayes is completely unhinged.
She’s wasting Arizona taxpayers’ money on her obsessive, Ahab-like pursuit of patriotic Arizonans who served as alternate electors after the stolen 2020 election.
Her first sham indictment was already laughed out of every court in…
— Office of Congressman Abe Hamadeh (@RepAbeHamadeh) June 4, 2026
Politico: Arizona AG to seek new indictment in Trump 2020 election case
“Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes plans to seek a new indictment against allies of President Trump who aided his quest to overturn the 2020 election, her office said Thursday after the state’s high court…
— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) June 4, 2026
Mayes’ lawfare had accused those who participated in a slate of alternate electors, a process that is common when the election results are close and has been used by both Democrat and Republican parties, of trying to overturn the election.
Her original scheme was thrown out last year when a judge noted prosecutors working for Mayes failed to properly instruct grand jurors on the federal Electoral Court Act.
The state Supreme Court refused to intervene then.
A report at the Washington Examiner said Mayes now wants a new grand jury and a new indictment.
She is claiming the Republican targets helped submit false documents regarding the election.
The original case was against 18 defendants like former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and others.
Giuliani previously has described Mayes’ work as more “weaponization of our justice system.”
The report explained, “Defense attorneys have argued that the prosecution is politically charged and criminalizes protected political activity. Republican lawmakers and Trump allies made similar arguments following the original indictment, accusing Mayes, a Democrat, of using the legal system to target political opponents. The defendants have consistently denied wrongdoing.”
Leftist activists in several other states also have tried to pursue similar charges, but those cases have stalled or been dropped.
