By Caitlin Sievers | AZ Mirror
Republican state lawmakers are again going after the State Bar of Arizona, even though they seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the organization works.
Their prime examples for why the State Bar should be stripped of its role in policing attorneys were a California man who was disbarred in the Grand Canyon State for soliciting nude photos from a potential client and an attorney whose law license was suspended for making unfounded claims about superior court judges.
The State Bar of Arizona, which is responsible for licensing attorneys in the state and is overseen by the Arizona Supreme Court, has for decades been a target for Republican legislators. In recent years, GOP criticism of the organization has centered on discipline doled out to lawyers who defended election-challenge lawsuits in 2020 and 2022 that the courts found to be frivolous and brought in bad faith.
