Attorney for Sec of State: ‘Kraken’ lawsuit alleges ‘utterly implausible fraud’

Steve Benson/Arizona Mirror

By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror

An attorney for Secretary of State Katie Hobbs urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to overturn Arizona’s election results that is filled with wild and unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud — even foreign espionage — which he described as nothing less than an “attack on democracy.”

Justin Nelson, of the Houston law firm Susman Godfrey LLP, said the lawsuit filed by attorney Sidney Powell, a former lawyer for President Donald Trump’s campaign who was fired last month and is now operating independently, should be dismissed on a number of grounds. The claims belong in state court because it’s being challenged under provisions of Arizona law, he said. And Nelson said it should be dismissed because the plaintiffs waited too long to take them to court.

But beyond that, Nelson repeatedly emphasized that the lawsuit is filled with nonsensical and baseless claims, largely from anonymous sources and “expert witnesses” with no real expertise. The allegations are devoid of facts, he said, and come from witnesses with no firsthand knowledge.

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