Attorney General Mark Brnovich
By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Daily Star
Proponents of more time to register to vote say Attorney General Mark Brnovich is having what amounts to buyer’s remorse in failing to defend the deadline in the first place.
In new legal filings, they point out that Brnovich never intervened in the case when they sued Secretary of State Katie Hobbs to force her to move the deadline back from its legally set Oct. 5 date.
Only after a federal judge set a new Oct. 23 deadline and Hobbs concluded an appeal is not in the best interest of the state did Brnovich take an interest and decide that he and his office now need to defend the original deadline.
But the lawyers for the challengers are telling the appellate judges that new-found interest in the issue legally comes too late.
