SCOTUS Rejects Vaseline Woman’s Dominion Appeal

Law & Crime reports:

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court were uninterested in Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake’s far-reaching attempt to ban Dominion Voting Systems’ machines from use in Arizona elections and beyond, sending her petition to the dust bin despite the hype generated around the failed effort.

In an orders list on Monday, SCOTUS jettisoned the case without comment — leaving the Ninth Circuit’s affirmation of the dismissal in the case undisturbed even though Lake insisted this was an urgent matter supported by persuasive “new evidence.”

Notably, U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi doled out sanctions against the lawyers who brought the case for making “false, misleading, and unsupported factual assertions” back in late 2022.

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