Arizona Democrat AG Kris Mayes just quietly dropped her years-long witch hunt against Trump allies.
She called it procedural – but a new court filing tells a different story.
What those documents show about a trip to Biden's White House is something else entirely.
The $200,000 That Bought Kris Mayes a Prosecution
Attorneys for Christina Bobb – the former RNC Counsel for Election Integrity caught in Mayes' crosshairs – filed a motion in Maricopa County Court to disqualify the Arizona AG entirely.
The reason: Democratic Attorneys General Association cut a $200,000 check to Mayes' legal defense fund while States United Democracy Center – a nonprofit the DAGA effectively controls – was simultaneously writing her prosecution strategy against Trump's allies.
The payments came in two installments. The first $50,000 arrived just after Mayes' office signed a contract with States United. The second, $150,000, landed one month after Bobb and her co-defendants were arrested, arraigned, and paraded before cameras for their mug shots.
"That is not independent prosecution," Bobb's attorney Thomas Jacobs told The Federalist. "That's like a mob, and it turns the attorney general's office into mob lawyers."
States United is no grassroots watchdog. The group was the brainchild of Norm Eisen – Barack Obama's "Ethics Czar" – and launched specifically to coordinate Democrat campaign committees and left-wing advocacy groups in the event Trump contested the 2020 election.
Court records show the nonprofit shares the same address, president, executive director, and leadership team as the Progressive State Leaders Committee, which is itself an arm of DAGA.
Arizona Fake Electors Case Was Just the Beginning
Arizona is only part of it.
Documents obtained by Judicial Watch – through a lawsuit after Mayes illegally withheld them, claiming attorney-client privilege – show the same coordination touched Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Each state prosecuted Trump allies on nearly identical charges. Each received legal strategy and talking points from States United.
"Maybe it is just a coincidence that all of the states that indicted Trump allies with the same ridiculous unprecedented charges all get legal counsel from States United," the Bobb filing states.
Jacobs doesn't think it's a coincidence. He told The Federalist: "Arizona had to do backflips to make the law fit the charges. You wouldn't bring these charges unless you had an ax to grind and a political agenda."
A DAGA presentation organized by Eisen himself – delivered to cooperating AGs and their staff – specifically discussed "how to stop Donald Trump and Trump supporters."
That presentation was delivered fewer than two months before Mayes opened the Arizona grand jury investigation.
Biden White House Coordinated With Mayes on Fake Electors Prosecution
Biden's White House wasn't a bystander.
Mayes and her investigators traveled to Biden's White House and interviewed witnesses for the Arizona case. Travel vouchers confirm they were there on case business – not a courtesy call.
The court filing states Mayes claimed the visit was to meet then-Vice President Kamala Harris. The travel vouchers contradict that.
Arizona's solicitor general also emailed then-Attorney General Merrick Garland's chief of staff seeking the special counsel's file on Trump's prosecution. Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan attorneys general signed a joint letter requesting the same materials.
Jacobs put the question directly in the motion supplement: "What interest does Nevada, Michigan, or the federal government have in this Arizona criminal prosecution?"
Judicial Watch Documents Expose What States United Hid From the Court
Mayes built this prosecution on a strategy Democrats pioneered.
Republicans preserved alternate electoral slates in contested states while legal challenges were still active – the same move Hawaii's Democrat electors made for John F. Kennedy in 1960 while a recount was pending, and those votes were accepted. Al Gore's legal team had a parallel contingency ready in 2000.
The 1887 Electoral Count Act – the statute lower courts found Mayes never explained to the grand jury – was written for exactly this situation.
The Arizona Supreme Court threw out the indictments on those grounds – Mayes never put the relevant law in front of the grand jury, the law that made the alternate elector strategy legal. She is now scrambling to impanel a new grand jury to start over.
Georgia and Pennsylvania dropped their cases. Michigan tossed the charges after a judge found the defendants were "executing their constitutional right to seek redress."
Wisconsin's case against Trump's campaign attorneys grinds on despite Wisconsin's own DOJ attorneys concluding the men did nothing illegal.
Trump pardoned all three Wisconsin defendants in November. The federal pardon doesn't extinguish state charges – but the Bobb filing's evidence of coordinated multistate lawfare just handed every remaining defendant a powerful new weapon.
"Five years later, Kris Mayes is still fixated on 2020 while violent crime, fentanyl trafficking, and border chaos threaten our communities every single day," Arizona GOP chairwoman Gina Swoboda said. "This obsession is not justice – it's politics."
The court filing called it a "wide-reaching multi-state political influence campaign." Jacobs called it a mob. When the party bankrolling Mayes was also writing her prosecution playbook, it's hard to argue he's wrong.
Sources:
- Matt Kittle and Brooke Brandtjen, "Court Filing: Democrat AGs Behind Lawfare Coordinated With Leftist Groups About 'How To Stop Trump,'" The Federalist, June 19, 2026.
- Matt Kittle, "Arizona's Lawfare-Pushing AG Can't Quit Her Witch Hunt Against Trump Allies," The Federalist, June 5, 2026.
- John Solomon, "Anti-Trump Lawyer's Nonprofit Secretly Aided State Prosecutions of Trump Supporters, Memos Show," Just the News, June 2026.
- "States United Democracy Center," InfluenceWatch, accessed June 2026.
- Rep. Abe Hamadeh, Letter to AG Pam Bondi requesting DOJ investigation of DAGA/SUDC, November 13, 2025.
