Judge Sam J. Myers ruled that Arizona prosecutors failed to properly instruct the grand jury on the Electoral Count Act, a key law relevant to the defense of Trump allies accused in the 2020 election subversion case.
As a result, the case has been sent back to the grand jury, marking a serious procedural setback but not a full dismissal.
The judge emphasized that prosecutors must explain all applicable laws to grand jurors, suggesting this omission was significant and possibly deliberate.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’s office strongly disagrees with the ruling and plans to appeal the decision.
The case involves high-profile defendants like Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, and others, including fake electors who claimed Trump won Arizona.
Republicans are now having their 2020 election case sent back to a grand jury.
Judge Sam J. Myers ruled prosecutors failed to explain the Electoral Count Act to jurors.
That’s odd that they decided to be quiet about it.
Something doesn’t seem right.
And so the defendants argued that law was central to their defense and should have been included.
Myers reminded prosecutors they must instruct jurors on all applicable laws.
How did they make such a major “mistake” for a high-profile case…unless they intended to do that.
Arizona Judge Orders Kris Mayes’ Case Against 18 Republicans Back to Grand Jury Over Electoral Count Act Omissionhttps://t.co/BgJN14AEh9
— DeepNewz (@deepnewzcom) May 19, 2025
Democrat Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ alternate Trump electors case is on life support after a judge found that prosecutors failed to inform jurors about the law that was central to the state’s case. pic.twitter.com/CuBnzwEBQE
— Thoughts from EL (@RepublicofEL) May 19, 2025
The Hill reports:
An Arizona judge on Monday ordered state prosecutors to return their 2020 election subversion case against Republican allies of President Trump to a grand jury, a significant setback for the high-profile case.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam J. Myers agreed with the Republicans who had argued that the Electoral Count Act, a law explaining how to tally presidential electoral votes that is at the heart of their defense, should have been provided to grand jurors.
“A prosecutor has a duty to instruct the grand jury on all the law applicable to the facts of
the case,” Myers wrote in a terse order.ADVERTISEMENTRichie Taylor, a spokesperson for Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D), said in a statement that the state “vehemently” disagrees with the court’s order and plans to appeal.
Though remanding the case to a grand jury is not the same as an altogether dismissal, the decision marks a blow to the state’s efforts to prosecute Trump’s allies for their efforts to keep him in power after he lost the 2020 election.
Mayes’s office charged ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, campaign advisor Boris Epshteyn and more than a dozen other defendants. Several of those defendants are the so-called fake electors, who signed a document falsely claiming Trump won the state’s 2020 presidential race.
After the 2024 election, Mayes said she had “no intention” of dropping the case and would not be “intimidated” by Trump’s return to the White House.
My nine felony indictments in AZ have just been remanded to the grand jury. The judge found that the state failed to properly instruct the grand jury.
This case is partisan politics at its worst and must be dismissed completely. https://t.co/HpoS9nlbJO
— Christina Bobb (@christina_bobb) May 19, 2025
And here’s a classic example of Democrat hypocrisy.
First we see her warning about “dangerous rhetoric” then we see her using the same rhetoric:
Kris Mayes is a chameleon, hypocrite, and a fraud. Democracy will REJECT her on November 8. pic.twitter.com/FE1ZPOlUYL
— Abe Hamadeh (@AbrahamHamadeh) October 30, 2022
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