Judge slaps election-denying Arizona Republican with new sanctions over 'bad faith' claims

Mark Finchem, the election-denying f , was hit with sanctions on Monday over what a judge ruled were "bad faith" arguments to overturn his election loss. In , Maricopa County Judge Melissa Iyer Julian argued that the purported evidence presented in own filings was enough for her to conclude that his efforts to overturn his loss were not made in good faith. "Attached to Finchem’s Amended Statement was his own expert’s analysis of the alleged failure to count so-called “black box votes,'" wrote Judge Julian. "Finchem’s expert report identified 80,000...