State Senator Anthony Kern (R-Glendale) held a press conference on March 24 denouncing Attorney General Kris Mayes convening a grand jury to indict Arizona’s alternate slate of electors for Donald Trump from 2020. Reports circulated earlier in March that Mayes issued grand jury subpoenas to people connected to Trump’s attempt to find fraud in the 2020 election.
Kern, who is running for Congress in Arizona’s Congressional District 8 to replace outgoing Representative Debbie Lesko amidst a competitive field of primary candidates, began, “What’s so wrong about standing up for the rule of law and our Arizona constitutional principles, and when did that become a crime?”
He said, “Up until the 2020 election, neither party had ever protested the election challenges of the other and accused them of engaging in criminal illegal conduct and using lawfare tactics to bankrupt me and prevent me from running for office in 2024.”
Kern asked, “Isn’t there something wrong when the rule of law gets applied indiscriminately in favor of only one political party, the Democrat Party, instead of Governor Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes working seriously? Not securing the borders and defending Arizona’s constitutional rights under the invasion clause of the U.S. Constitution; Article Four, Section Four, just like other states are doing.”
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