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The Arizona Supreme Court has refused to revive the case against the state\u2019s 11 fake electors who tried to help President Donald Trump overturn his 2020 loss, leaving its outcome at the mercy of the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

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Last year, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes asked the state\u2019s high court to reverse a trial court\u2019s ruling that froze the case. Two years ago, an Arizona grand jury indicted 18 people who signed a document claiming to grant Arizona\u2019s electoral votes to Trump on state fraud charges, including top Trump allies Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows.<\/p>\n

Also indicted were state Sen. Jake Hoffman, former state Sen. Anthony Kern, Tyler Bowyer, the COO of Turning Point Action and Kelli Ward, who at the time of the effort to undermine Biden\u2019s win was the chair of the Arizona Republican Party. <\/p>\n

Attorneys for the fake electors told a trial court that the indictments were invalid because prosecutors didn\u2019t give jurors a copy of the , which they said absolved them of any wrongdoing. The 138-year-old law sets up how to count electoral votes and includes a legal framework for Congress to resolve disputes that arise when a state sends multiple slates of electors. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers agreed with the defendants, sending the indictment back to the grand jury and effectively killing the case. <\/p>\n

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As a result, Mayes will return to the grand jury to try and restart the prosecution, a spokesman said. But whether any indictment is ultimately prosecuted hinges on whether Mayes, a Democrat, wins reelection in November. The Republicans who hope to defeat her are unlikely to take up the case.<\/p>\n

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The Arizona bid to hold fake electors accountable is one of a handful of state-level efforts left. At the federal level, Trump issued dozens of pardons to fake electors across the country, including in Arizona. <\/p>\n

This story\u00a0was first published by\u00a0Arizona Mirror, which is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity.<\/em><\/p>\n

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