Arizona AG Kris Mayes built her entire case against Trump allies using a playbook written by a Soros-linked nonprofit.
The Arizona Supreme Court just buried that case for the third time.
What she did next should make every Arizona taxpayer furious.
Kris Mayes Let a Radical Leftist Nonprofit Write Her Fake Electors Indictment
Kris Mayes is Arizona's Democrat Attorney General — and since 2023 she has spent the bulk of her time and tax dollars trying to put Trump allies in prison over the 2020 election.
Her targets: 18 people, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and constitutional attorney John Eastman, all charged with fraud, forgery, and conspiracy for serving as alternate electors after Arizona's razor-thin 2020 result.
Trump was named an unindicted co-conspirator.
The premise of her case was that these men and women broke the law by attempting to keep Biden out of the White House. The defense was that they were exercising a constitutional right to contest a disputed election.
A trial judge sided with the defense — ruling that Mayes had withheld the 1887 Electoral Count Act from her own grand jury, the very statute defendants argued made their conduct legal. The case was thrown out.
That's where the outside operation comes in.
The story of Mayes' prosecution doesn't start in the Arizona AG's office. It starts in Washington, D.C., at the States United Democracy Center – a radical leftist election law group founded by Norm Eisen, the Obama White House "Ethics Czar" who became a fixture of every anti-Trump legal effort since 2020.
On July 27, 2023, States United sent Mayes a 47-page memo outlining the criminal case she should bring, naming the specific statutes to charge, identifying the defendants by name, and even cataloguing potential defenses. Meadows. Giuliani. Eastman. All on a list drafted by a partisan activist group that had been coordinating against Trump since the day he lost in 2020.
Nine months later, Mayes got her grand jury to indict 18 people on that exact roadmap.
Judicial Watch sued to get the communications between Mayes' office and States United. Mayes fought it, claiming attorney-client privilege. An Arizona appeals court ruled she broke the law by hiding them. Tom Fitton called it what it was.
"Judicial Watch is excited that the court has slapped back the unlawful secrecy about anti-Trump lawfare abuse by Arizona's AG Kris Mayes," Fitton said. "We are pushing hard in court for full disclosure about the details of what looks to be a conspiracy by the AG's office to punish Trump supporters for exercising their fundamental rights."
Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and the Grand Jury That Just Fell Apart
Mayes is the last one standing in a graveyard.
In Michigan, AG Dana Nessel charged 16 Republicans with forgery and conspiracy — felonies carrying 14-year maximum sentences. A judge threw out every charge in September 2025, ruling the prosecution never established that any defendant intended to defraud anyone. Nessel declined to appeal.
Georgia's RICO case — the one that indicted Trump himself — is functionally dead after the DA was disqualified for an ethics scandal. The federal case Jack Smith brought against Trump was dropped the moment Trump won the 2024 election.
In Arizona, Mayes appealed the dismissal to the Arizona Court of Appeals. Lost. Appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court. Lost again Thursday.
Her response was to announce she'd convene a new grand jury and start over.
"Good news out of Arizona today," John Eastman wrote on X after the ruling. "The AZ S.Ct. denied AG Kris Mayes' appeal of the decision to throw out the original grand jury indictment in the Trump electors case because of her biased presentation of the case. She immediately announced she'll convene a new grand jury."
Arizona 2020 Lawfare Is Now a 2026 Campaign Strategy
This is where the cynicism of the whole operation becomes impossible to ignore.
Mayes faces re-election in November 2026. Her Republican opponents have already labeled the electors prosecution as textbook lawfare. Starting over with a new grand jury keeps the case alive through the campaign. It gives her fundraising material. It keeps her name in front of Democrat donors who bankrolled this operation from the beginning.
Arizona GOP chairwoman Gina Swoboda has had enough.
"Five years later, Kris Mayes is still fixated on 2020 while violent crime, fentanyl trafficking, and border chaos threaten our communities every single day," Swoboda said. "This obsession is not justice – it's politics."
That's exactly right. A radical leftist nonprofit drew up the indictment. A partisan AG executed it. The courts rejected it three times. Rather than let it go, she's betting Arizona voters won't notice she's spent two years failing to convict anyone while the state's real problems pile up.
Kris Mayes is betting they won't — and that bet is the whole game.
Sources:
- M.D. Kittle, "Arizona's Lawfare-Pushing AG Can't Quit Her Witch Hunt Against Trump Allies," The Federalist, June 5, 2026.
- Mark Tanos, "Arizona Attorney General Plans To Re-Up Lawfare Against Trump Allies," The Daily Caller, June 4, 2026.
- "Leftist Group That Drew Up Blueprints For 'Get Trump' Prosecutions Was On Retainer To 'Advise' Arizona AG," The Federalist, December 23, 2024.
- "Judicial Watch Victory: Arizona Appeals Court Rules State AG Kris Mayes' Office Failed to Follow Law in Public Records Lawsuit," Judicial Watch, May 4, 2026.
- "Michigan Judge Dismisses Case Against 15 Alleged 'Fake Electors' in 2020 Election," ABC News, September 9, 2025.
