The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to throw out sanctions against lawyers who represented former Arizona gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake.
Justices on Oct. 13 turned away a petition from Andrew Parker, one of the lawyers, for review of the $122,000 in sanctions. None of the justices outlined why they rejected the case.
At least four of the nine justices must vote to accept such a petition, or they reject it. In a typical year, 100 to 150 petitions are accepted, and thousands of others are rejected.
A federal district judge in 2022 imposed sanctions on Parker and another lawyer after dismissing the case brought by Lake that alleged problems with electronic voting machines and sought to force Arizona to hand-count ballots in the 2022 election….