Abe Hamadeh is campaigning for a Congressional seat, while he is still legally campaigning to have (multiple) courts reverse the 2022 election and make him Attorney General.

Both Hamadeh and his attorney in this effort, Ryan Heath, have previously filed unsuccessful Special Action Petitions with the Arizona Supreme Court. And, the new one filed yesterday appears headed for a similar fate.

This one follows the April dismissal of the Hamadeh/Heath joint effort (sanctions still pending). Heath immediately filed the Notice of Appeal to go to the intermediate Court of Appeals, and yesterday filed with the Arizona Supreme Court.

The Justices rejected Heath’s Petition last year, although that was slightly different – Heath was trying to skip both the Superior and Appeals courts. In Hamadeh’s actual Election Contest, his attorneys filed an unsucccssful Special Action Petition at the Supreme Court to try to unstick a final dismissal from the Superior Court judge.

Heath tells Arizona’s Law that he is more optimistic about this Petition’s fate, and that he addressed the Special Action rules about only going to the Supreme Court in a footnote.

Substantively, the Petition is again claiming that Maricopa County 

This article was reported by AZ Law founder Paul Weich. 

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