A federal court in Arizona has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a group of conservative operatives and aided by attorney Sidney Powell requesting that the court “set aside the results of the 2020 General Election.”
“By any measure, the relief Plaintiffs seek is extraordinary,” U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa wrote. “The Complaint’s allegations are sorely wanting of relevant or reliable evidence, and Plaintiffs’ invocation of this Court’s limited jurisdiction is severely strained.”
The order marks another defeat in the courts amid President Trump and his allies’ attempt to overturn the election, which President-elect Joe Biden won by a 7 million-vote margin nationally. At least six lawsuits in Arizona have been thrown out in the state, according to AZ Central, where Biden eked out a victory by less than half a percentage point, locking up an 11,000-vote lead in the state.
Arizona certified its election results on Nov. 30.
The plaintiffs had argued in his filing that the results in Arizona were “so riddled with fraud, illegality and statistical impossibility … that Arizona voters, courts and legislators cannot rely on or certify [the results].”
Humetewa wasn’t convinced, writing that the plaintiffs’ 300 pages of evidence “based on anonymous witnesses, hearsay, and irrelevant analysis of unrelated election” were “only impressive for their volume.”
“Allegations that find favor in the public sphere of gossip and innuendo cannot be a substitute for earnest pleadings and procedure in federal court,” the judge wrote. “They most certainly cannot be the basis for upending Arizona’s 2020 General Election. The Court is left with no alternative but to dismiss this matter in its entirety.”
The Arizona Supreme Court rejected another lawsuit earlier Wednesday brought by the head of the state Republican Party, Chairwoman Kelli Ward, finding that the suit “fails to present any evidence of ‘misconduct,’ ‘Illegal votes’ or that the Biden Electors ‘did not in fact receive the highest number of votes for office,’ let alone establish any evidence of fraud or a sufficient error rate that would undermine the certainty of the election results.”
