Democrat AGs Mayes and Kaul pursue lawfare against Trump backers over 2020
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The 2020 elections ended six years ago. But two power-hungry Democratic lawyers, Kris Mayes of Arizona and Josh Kaul of Wisconsin, continue to file lawsuits against Trump supporters who are legally challenging the election. These shameful events must be stopped as soon as possible.
President Trump and many of his supporters found numerous inconsistencies with the 2020 election. They challenged the results in several closely contested states. The First Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 allowed for such challenges, just as Democrats challenged Republican presidential victories in 1968, 2000, 2004 and 2016. Leftists maliciously claimed that challengers submitted “fake electors” as part of an effort to overturn certified results in those states.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul discuss next steps in the 2020 fake voter investigations. (Mario Tama/Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for Wisconsin Democratic Party)
This is complete nonsense. No one was fooled by the intentions of these reserve voters. While Rudy Giuliani sent out “fake” voters, he did not bind “real” voters at the ballot box.
The slates of electors submitted were backup electors in case Congress objects to the certification of electors in contested states on January 6, 2021.
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In 2022, Democrat Mayes became Arizona’s attorney general, defeating Republican Abraham Hamadeh by less than 300 votes. He immediately began pursuing illegal lawsuits against Trump supporters. The previous attorney general, Mark Brnovich, took no action against those who objected to the 2020 election because he deemed them guilty of no crime. Mayes shrugged it off and sought indictments against eleven Arizona alternate voters and seven other defendants, including Mike Roman, President Trump’s head of campaign operations on election day.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks at a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington on December 15, 2023. (Jose Luis Magana, File/Associated Press)
The Maricopa County court correctly dismissed the indictment and ordered Mayes to seek a new indictment. Mayes had not presented the grand jury with the full text of the Electoral Count Act, a complex and arcane law directly relevant to the case. If the law permits the defendants’ actions, the state cannot pursue its case. Federal election law prevails over state laws regarding federal elections. The statute was so complex that Congress changed the law several years ago through the Electoral Count Reform Act.
Mayes ran for the Arizona Court of Appeals. The court wisely refused to hear his objection. He has now petitioned the Arizona Supreme Court for review. The justices should follow the wisdom of the appeals court and decline to hear Mayes’ appeal.
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Mayes is the same prosecutor who threatened to investigate President Trump for an alleged death threat against former Rep. Liz Cheney (an unbalanced RINO with Trump) during a campaign rally in Phoenix. Trump, of course, made no such threat, and Mayes abandoned his stunt shortly after the president’s landslide victory last November.
Wisconsin also suffers from a partisan Democratic attorney general seeking re-election. In 2024, approximately four years after the conclusion of the 2020 elections, Kaul, a radical leftist like Mayes, prepared an indictment against three defendants, including Roman and two of Trump’s lawyers.
The facts were the same as in Arizona, except that Kaul did not charge the 10 alternate voters in Wisconsin. The defendants now face a preliminary hearing in Dane County, a left-wing stronghold that is home to the state capital and the ultra-liberal University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they have struggled to find a fair and impartial jury.
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The preliminary hearing is scheduled for December 15. One of the defendants sought disqualification of Judge John Hyland, claiming that a retired judge named Frank Remington wrote the opinion denying the defense’s motion to dismiss. The motion to withdraw included support from a Georgetown expert who concluded, based on writing styles, that Remington wrote the opinion. Hyland denied the retraction request and maintained that she wrote the opinion.
President Donald Trump speaks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
No matter how the preliminary hearing turns out, the case must be over. Kaul made the accusations in the middle of the 2024 election, when Wisconsin is a key swing state, after the facts had been known for four years. We cannot criminalize politics.
There was another prosecutorial embarrassment that brought charges against multiple defendants over the 2020 election in Georgia: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Her case was derailed when it became public, thanks to Roman’s attorney, Ashleigh Merchant, that she was having an affair with Nathan Wade, one of the special prosecutors Willis hired, who received nearly $700,000 courtesy of Fulton County taxpayers. Wade spent most of the money on Willis, treating him to luxury world trips. The lovers claimed that Willis paid compensation to Wade, but there was no evidence to confirm this. Georgia courts disqualified Willis, and the special prosecutor who replaced him dismissed the case earlier this month.
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Lawfare Democrats failed to lock Trump in, bankrupt him, or defeat him in the election. They’re trying to get every last pound of flesh out of some of the president’s former aides and supporters. If Mayes and Kaul do not follow the excellent example of the Georgia special prosecutor and drop their bogus case, courts in Arizona and Wisconsin should do so.
The Department of Justice must also pursue charges against these defamants of the legal profession for conspiring to violate the civil rights of these legal victims under 18 USC § 241. After all, as we heard so much during the legal campaign against President Trump, no one is above the law.
