Arizona Attorney General Chris Mayes said Sunday that he has “no intention” of waiving the arrest. criminal case Against a group of allies of President-elect Donald Trump who are trying to overturn the results of the 2020 Arizona election.
“I have no intention of destroying this business. I have no intention of giving this up,” Mayes, a Democrat, told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.
“A grand jury in Arizona has decided to indict these individuals in 2020 for trying to overthrow our democracy, so we will not be cowed or intimidated,” he said.
In April, a state grand jury indicted more than a dozen Trump allies for trying to send a number of alternative voters to the 2020 Electoral College. Joe Biden won the state by a few thousand votes that year and confirmed the state’s statewide slate. voters for him.
Among the indicted are big names such as Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
A spokesman for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Those charged include Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelly Ward and her husband, Michael Ward; state senator Anthony Kern; Robert Montgomery, former head of the Cochise County GOP; Republican Party activists Samuel Moorhead, Nancy Cottle and Loraine Pellegrino; former Arizona GOP Executive Director Greg Safsten; Christina Bobb, Trump’s ex-lawyer; and Tyler Bowyer, the Republican National Committee’s Arizona committee and chief operating officer of Trump-aligned Tipping Point Action.
All were brought before the court on the charges he pleaded not guilty.
The case will be heard in 2026, but there are defendants requested the termination of the case.
Alex Tabet and Von Hillyard contributed.