PHOENIX — A Glendale state senator who calls reports of a riot on Jan. 6 “a sham” is now going after judges who sanction attorneys for filing what he believes are “good faith” claims on behalf of clients.
But Republican Anthony Kern insists it has nothing to do with his own lawyers being ordered to pay $75,000 in legal fees after he and two other lawmakers filed what a judge concluded was a frivolous lawsuit against another legislator over his role in that 2021 event at the U.S. Capitol.
And the only example he cited of problems when the House Judiciary Committee approved his Senate Bill 1092 on Wednesday was the 2021 decision by the New York State Bar to suspend the law license of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani for making false claims about the 2020 election.
