Several of the defendants in Lake's effort to overturn the result of the recent election want her to pay thousands in legal expenses.
In a motion filed Monday, Lake's opponent, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, filed documents seeking nearly $37,000 in compensation to cover costs associated with her legal defense after a weeks-long saga over claims of illegally cast ballots and alleged disenfranchisement that a Maricopa County judge ruled were largely without merit.
Combined with similar motions from Maricopa County and the Arizona Secretary of State's Office—the other two defendants in the case—Lake and her attorneys could be forced to pay an estimated $695,975 in sanctions to dissuade what attorneys for Maricopa County dismissed as a"Enough is really enough," Maricopa County Deputy Attorney Thomas Liddy wrote in a motion filed Monday on behalf of several county election officials Lake attempted to sue.
Arizona Republican Kari Lake, shown against the backdrop of the Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona. Lake could potentially be on the hook to pay nearly $700,000 in attorney fees after a failed challenge to the election she lost last month.
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