PHOENIX — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t overturn $122,200 in penalties against an attorney for Kari Lake and Mark Finchem for filing what lower court judges called a “frivolous” challenge to the use of voting machines in Arizona.
Without comment, the justices on Tuesday rejected claims by Andrew Parker that it was wrong for U.S. District Court Judge John Tuchi to impose the sanctions after concluding that Parker and Kurt Olson, his co-counsel, had claimed that the machines used to tabulate ballots can produce inaccurate results. The trial judge said those claims were little more than speculation, backed only by “vague” allegations about electronic voting systems generally.
What caused Parker to seek review by the high court was that Tuchi decided that he and Olson should pay Maricopa County’s cost and attorney fees not only because there was no legal basis but that the lawsuit, shortly before the 2022 election was political.
