BREAKING: BREAKING: AZ Supreme Court DENIES Kari Lake's Petition To Transfer Appeal (READ Order)

UPDATE, 7/26, 12:15pm: "BREAKING: AZ Supreme Court DENIES Kari Lake's Petition To Transfer Appeal"

The Arizona Supreme Court today DENIED Kari Lake's Petition to Transfer her appeal from the intermediate Court of Appeals (Division 2).

Noting that Division 2 has already set a deadline of September 15 for Lake's Opening Brief, and no good cause to expedite the appeal, the entire court - with no reported dissent - denied the Petition.

Lake waited several weeks before asking for the transfer, and only filed it after the randomized reassignment from the Phoenix-based Division 1 to the Tucson-based Division 2. Lake questioned why her case was moved to the "most Marxist part of the state".

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UPDATE, 7/25, 4:20pm: We are now posting Lake's Petition to Transfer. We did not have a clean copy of it previously, although we had been expecting it. A few readers have asked for it the past couple of days, so we obtained it from the Court today.

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UPDATE, 7/22, 9am:

The appellees/defendants have told the Supreme Court Justices that they are NOT OPPOSED to transferring Kari Lake's appeal directly to the higher court. 

Maricopa County took the opportunity provided by the Response to Petition to Transfer to remind the Justices that they sanctioned Lake a couple of months ago: "(M)ost of the factual allegations in the Petition are demonstrably false and misrepresentations of the record. This is a recurring problem that this Court already sanctioned." (The Justices sanctioned her and her attorneys $2,000 for claiming that it was "undisputed" that there were more than 35,000 "unaccounted for" ballots added to the totals.)

In other words, we take no position, but "this Court should be aware of the Petition’s significant deficiencies and misrepresentations."

ORIGINAL ARTICLE, 7/14: "BREAKING: Lake (Finally) Asks Arizona Supreme Court To Take Her Election Contest Appeal #2; Save Her From The "Most Marxist Part of the State""

Kari Lake (finally) asked the Arizona Supreme Court today to hear her (second) Election Contest appeal. It apparently took the Court of Appeals transferring it to what Lake called "the most Marxist part of the state".

The appeal of the dismissal of her remaining counts has been pending since the end of May - after Judge Thompson ruled against her following a second trial. She could then have expedited consideration of the appeal by asking the Supreme Court to hear the appeal directly, instead of waiting for the intermediate Court of Appeals to consider it. She has also not asked the Court of Appeals to expedite it as an elections matter, and did not file other required statements in a timely manner. (She finally paid the filing fee last week.)

It was the Arizona Supreme Court that previously affirmed the dismissal of most of her claims, but also ordered Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson to re-consider the signature verification count he had dismissed prior to trial.

Arizona's Law detailed last week's randomized transfer of her appeal from Division 1 of the Court of Appeals to Division 2 in Tucson. That prompted Lake to publicly - and falsely - state that sending it "to the most Marxist part of the state" was an attempt to "bury the truth". Today's motion was apparently prompted by her promise that she "won't let them".

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