Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is the queen of lawfare. She’s brought an entirely political prosecution against me and now is doing everything in her power to delay and deny my ability to confront her in court.
There are two key reasons for Mayes’s delaying tactics:
- As a lawfare queen, she wants to drive up my defense costs exponentially in the hopes that in forcing me to run a gauntlet of rulings and appeals I will run out of funds to defend myself, or just surrender to her false claims.
- As important, Mayes is DESPERATE to avoid having to publicly disclose her behind-the-scenes communications about my prosecution with lawfare groups, partisan staffers and her campaign operatives.
Mayes has filed a “Special Action” petition with the state Appellate Court initiating a process that gives her a chance to further bleed me dry of defense costs and cause a lengthy delay in having to answer in court for her partisan and improper motivations in bringing this prosecution.
We can’t let the queen of lawfare run up my costs and attempt to run out the clock, but my legal defense fund is nearly exhausted and I urgently need help to continue pushing back against this entirely political prosecution. I plead with you to step forward today with an emergency donation.
My team recently won a HUGE victory in court where the Arizona trial judge ruled I had presented prima facia evidence that Attorney General Mayes has pursued this prosecution in violation of my fundamental First Amendment rights and in violation of the state’s anti-SLAPP statute.
With this hard-fought victory in hand, Mayes was FINALLY going to be forced to prove that her prosecution wasn’t politically motivated and brought for improper purposes. But the “Special Action” process her petition has initiated will delay, and possibly prevent, the truth of her conduct being exposed in court.
In her filing, Mayes admits that she wants to stop, among other things, my ability to “engage in extensive discovery into several years’ worth of privileged and non-privileged communications made by the currently assigned trial prosecutors, the Attorney General, her Chief of Staff, and even the Attorney General’s 2022 campaign organization.”
What does she have to hide?
Mayes is acting in a transparently political way, using the Special Action process to try to shield her bias and partisan motivations from public scrutiny.
I’m not going to let her get away with it, but I urgently need your help to prevail.
👉SUPPORT THE JOHN EASTMAN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND👈
I’ve already had to raise and expend well over $1.5 MILLION so far defending against the lawfare attacks I have faced in three states, including in Arizona thanks to the lawfare queen.
Now I’m forced to pay my legal team to file extensive briefs defending the trial judge’s ruling on my behalf, and then to respond to whatever false narrative that Mayes tries to establish in her own filings.
Aside from the extensive cost, I also have to suffer substantial delay. The Special Action process could drag on for months. And even when we win, the entire matter will go back to the trial judge for another series of briefs, replies, arguments and possible appeals.
Anyone who knows anything about how the lawfare left operates can smell the STENCH of their partisan motives all the way from Arizona.
I intend to defeat Kris Mayes in this Special Action process that she’s initiated, but I need your immediate help. I urgently must raise substantial additional funds to meet this new challenge so I’m turning to you today to ask for an EMERGENCY DONATION of $25, $50, $100, $250 or $500 or more.
The lawfare queen may hope that I can’t afford to continue to fight and won’t be able to expose her partisan motives in bringing this prosecution. But I have full confidence that, with your support, I will be able to do just what Kris Mayes fears the most:
Conduct extensive discovery, review incriminating communications within her partisan team, and put her operatives under oath and on the stand where they will FINALLY be forced to reveal Mayes’s motives in bringing this partisan prosecution – under penalty of PERJURY.
I know I can count on you. Thank you for whatever you can do to help as we meet this new challenge.
Sincerely,
John Eastman
Constitutional Scholar
Former Attorney for President Donald Trump