Arizona’s Deranged AG

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Kris Mayes Can’t Quit Her Obsessive Trump Crusade

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is back at it again, proving that some Democrats will never accept the will of the voters or the reality of Trump’s return to the White House. Just days after the Arizona Supreme Court slapped down her latest desperate bid to revive a flawed felony case against President Trump’s allies, Mayes announced she’s dragging the whole mess back to a grand jury for another swing. This isn’t justice. It’s lawfare on steroids from a partisan operator who treats her office like a personal weapon against America First.

The case centers on the 2020 fake electors effort—perfectly legal alternate slates designed to preserve options amid widespread questions about that election’s integrity in Arizona. Mayes indicted a raft of Trump allies including Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and state Republicans back in 2024, painting routine legal maneuvering as some grand criminal conspiracy. Trump himself was labeled an unindicted co-conspirator. Courts have repeatedly exposed the shoddy work: grand jury defects, failure to present key evidence like the Electoral Count Act, and procedural screw-ups that forced restarts.

Yet Mayes won’t let it die. The Supreme Court rejected her appeal on June 2, 2026, upholding a lower court’s ruling that sent the original indictment packing. Her response? Double down and start over. This is the same pattern we’ve seen nationwide: Democrats weaponizing state AG offices to harass political opponents long after voters rejected their agenda.

Who Is Kris Mayes and Why the Obsession?

Mayes rode into office in 2022 as a supposed moderate with a background as a journalist and a former Republican on the Arizona Corporation Commission. She flipped parties, won as a Democrat, and immediately turned the AG’s office into Resistance Central. She’s filed dozens of lawsuits against the Trump administration—39 by some counts—challenging everything from tariffs to executive actions on borders and education funding. Her office brags about suing Trump and proving “no one is above the law,” but it’s really about delaying and damaging policies that deliver for working Americans.

The fake electors case fits her pattern perfectly. It’s not about enforcing clear statutes. It’s about keeping Trump and his team tied up in court, generating headlines, and signaling to the base that the fight against 2016-2020 never ends. Even as Trump racks up wins on borders, economy, and accountability, Mayes clings to 2020 grievances like a security blanket. Her reelection bid in 2026 looms, and this case keeps her relevant with the hard-left donors and activists who demand perpetual warfare.

Arizona voters handed Trump the state in 2024, yet Mayes acts like the election results from four years earlier still override everything. It’s the same unhinged refusal to move on that defined the Biden years, now playing out at the state level even after voters fired the architects of that disaster.

The Bigger Picture of Democrat Lawfare in Arizona

This isn’t isolated incompetence. Mayes’ office has fumbled procedural basics repeatedly, yet she presses forward with taxpayer resources. Defense attorneys have hammered the selective prosecution and due process violations, while some co-defendants cut deals or saw charges dropped. The delays now push any potential trial well past midterms, conveniently keeping the story alive for political theater.

Arizona deserves better than an AG who prioritizes vendettas over real crime. The state faces actual problems—border chaos spilling over, fentanyl deaths, strained resources from illegal immigration—that demand attention. Instead, Mayes chases ghosts from 2020 while Trump delivers results that expose her side’s failures.

Her obsession reveals the rot at the heart of the modern left: they can’t win arguments at the ballot box, so they turn courts into political battlegrounds. Trump and his allies fought within the system to ensure every legal avenue was exhausted after a disputed election. Mayes calls that criminal. Normal Americans call it fighting for transparency and accountability.

This saga won’t end until voters in Arizona or higher courts shut it down for good. Mayes represents the worst of the holdover resistance—bitter, relentless, and increasingly irrelevant as America moves forward under America First leadership. The courts have already rejected her flawed case once. Restarting it just proves the point: this is politics, not prosecution, and taxpayers are footing the bill for the tantrum.