On Monday, April 22, The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeal made by Arizona Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Fichem, bringing finality to their legal effort challenging the use of electronic voting machines two years to the day after it began.
The U.S. Senate candidate Lake and state Senate candidate Finchem asked the nation’s top court to hear their case in mid-March. The court refused to consider the appeal, making that official with an order on Monday. However, it does not include the consideration of the court’s decision.
Many legal experts had predicted the court would not exercise its discretion to include this case to its docket, citing well-established legal precedent and the court’s low acceptance rate.
According to a report of the Supreme Court’s website, every year around 5000 to 6000 cases are appealed in the court out of which hears oral arguments in 60 or 70 cases. That rate is about 1 percent.
In April 2022, Finchem and Lake first filed their lawsuit in the federal court of Arizona when both were the participants for other offices. Finchem was running for secretary of state while Lake was running for governor.
Both the candidates were defeated by Democrats in an election that was widely viewed as Arizonans’ rebuke of former president Donald Trump’s acolytes who espouse stolen election views.
Additionally, “election deniers have attacked democracy at every turn, and this decision not to hear the appeal by a conservative supreme court underscores deniers’ inability to produce a legitimate argument against our elections system.
Further, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said it was “time to stop breathing oxygen into these dying narratives which inspire unhinged attacks” and instead focus on the working of election officials to ensure safe, secure, and fair elections.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors declined to do any comment on the Supreme Court’s decision. A spokesperson for Lake’s US Senate campaign did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Finchem.
Moreover, Several Republican Party organizations, including the Republican Party of ARizona and the Maricopa County Republican Committee, filed briefs urging the nation’s highest court to take the case.
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