Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said Sunday that she has “no intention” of dropping the criminal case against a group of allies of newly elected President Donald Trump who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Arizona.
‘I have no intention of closing the case. I have no intention of dropping this case,” Mayes, a Democrat, told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.
“A grand jury in the state of Arizona has decided that these individuals who engaged in an attempt to overthrow our democracy in 2020 must be held accountable so that we will not be cowed and intimidated,” she added.
A state grand jury in April indicted more than a dozen Trump allies for allegedly trying to send a series of alternate electors to the Electoral College in 2020. Joe Biden won the state by several thousand votes that year, forcing the state to certify a series of alternative electors. voters for him.
The suspects include big names such as former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
A spokesperson for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Others charged include Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward; state Senator Anthony Kern; Robert Montgomery, the former head of the Cochise County GOP; Republican Party activists Samuel Moorhead, Nancy Cottle and Loraine Pellegrino; Greg Safsten, the former executive director of the Arizona GOP; former Trump attorney Christina Bobb; and Tyler Bowyer, a board member of the Republican National Committee in Arizona and chief operating officer of the Trump-aligned Turning Point Action.
All were indicted on the charges and pleaded not guilty.
The case is set to go to trial in 2026, but the defendants have tried to have the case dismissed.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
