BREAKING: State Senate Republicans Speed Up Court Proceedings Re: Election Subpoenas, Intend To Send Congress An Update Before Electoral College (READ)

State Senate President Karen Fann and Judiciary Committee Chair Eddie Farnsworth filed their own lawsuit to try to enforce their election-related subpoenas against Maricopa County. Superior Court Judge Randall Warner has set a fast-tracked oral argument on jurisdictional issues for Wednesday afternoon.

Maricopa County's Republican-dominated Board of Supervisors filed suit on Friday, calling the subpoenas "unlawful". Not satisfied, Fann and Farnsworth hired outside legal counsel Kory Langhofer and Thomas Basile to file a special action yesterday, noting that January 6 and January 11 are both key dates. Congress meets on the former to accept Arizona's 11 Electoral College votes for Joe Biden, and the current State Legislature terminates on the latter date.

Judge Warner refused to allow the Republican slate of electors to intervene in the case, and he will later decide whether the two separate cases should be consolidated into one. Right now, he sees "real jurisdictional challenges" to the Legislature's suit, asking "what can the court do that the Legislature can't do" in enforcing the legislative subpoenas? He also wanted to know "why is this a Special Action", and "why does the court get involved at all in a legislative subpoena?"

The parties have until 2pm tomorrow to brief the jurisdictional and standing issues, and he will hear the oral arguments at 4pm.

Here is the Special Action Complaint filed by the Republicans' outside counsel:

Fann v. Maricopa County - Special Action Complaint by arizonaspolitics on Scribd

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