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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes plans to seek a new indictment against allies of President Donald Trump who aided his quest to overturn the 2020 election, her office said Thursday after the state's high court shot down an effort to revive her sprawling first indictment against them.

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... "The Arizona Attorney General's Office will return this case to the grand jury," Mayes spokesperson Richie Taylor said. "We decline to comment further at this time."

The announcement by Mayes, a Democrat, came moments after the Arizona Supreme Court publicly revealed a June 2 decision to deny Mayes' bid to revive the case against some of Trump's top allies, which was dismissed over a judge's finding that there was a defect in the grand jury indictment.

The brief, unexplained decision closed the book on a two-year-old case that threatened some of Trump's closest allies, including former chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman and nearly a dozen GOP activists who falsely claimed to be legitimate presidential electors despite Trump's defeat in the state. Trump himself was named by the unusually aggressive grand jury as an unindicted co-conspirator. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-04 06:33 PM | Reply

"Special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of Trump for allegedly attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election lists six unnamed co-conspirators, two of whom have been widely reported to be John Eastman, Senior Fellow at The Claremont Institute, and Jeffrey Clark, Senior Fellow and Director of Litigation at the Center for Renewing America.

According to the indictment, Clark suggested deploying the military to suppress political unrest in the event that the coup proved successful.

Eastman appears to have been comfortable with that plan as well."

www.mediamatters.org

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-04 06:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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