The U.S. Supreme Court has opted not to hear Kari Lake’s voting machine lawsuit, spelling further trouble for the former Arizona gubernatorial candidate’s lawsuit.
The lawsuit had been filed by Lake and former Arizona secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem, who argued in their court filing that they had sufficiently argued that all Arizona-certified optical scanners and ballot marking devices “have been wrongly certified for use.” Prior to the Supreme Court declining to take up the case, the lawsuit was rejected by a federal judge in 2022, with that decision affirmed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in October 2023.
“We are obviously disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to review the decisions of the Arizona district court and the Ninth Circuit, and order that our challenge to the 2022 election procedures be heard on the merits,” a Monday statement from Kurt Olsen, one of Lake’s attorneys, said.
Olsen added that Lake and Finchem’s case was dismissed due to “a purported lack of standing to assert an injury,” and that the courts have not ruled on the case’s merits because of this. He also said that the topic of election integrity will continue to be pushed ahead of the 2024 elections.
Lake herself has not yet commented on the Supreme Court’s decision not to take up her case, but did repost a comment made by an independent journalist, who stated that the court did not believe election integrity “was worth the court’s time during another crucial presidential race.”
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In the wake of Lake and Finchem losing their 2022 races, Lake is running in Arizona’s 2024 Senate race against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), both of whom are seeking to replace Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ). Finchem, meanwhile, is running for state Senate.
The Washington Examiner has contacted Lake’s campaign for comment.
