America First Legal files amicus brief with AZ Supreme Court in Abe Hamadeh election contest

America First Legal filed an amicus brief  with the Arizona Supreme Court in the election contest of GOP Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh.

"The amicus filed by America First Legal explains to the Arizona Supreme Court why it should take the case and order the trial court to give Hamadeh a new trial," the legal group wrote in a statement Thursday. "This is the only way to ensure that all the lawful votes in this race are counted."

You can read the brief here:

Earlier this month, Hamadeh filed a special action with the state's high court, requesting a new trial in connection with his November 2022 election.

A judge last month rejected Hamadeh's bid for a new election trial. He narrowly lost his bid for state attorney general in 2022 and has been challenging the results of the election. 

Hamadeh and the Republican National Committee sued his opponent, Democratic Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, to ensure all votes were counted in the contest, which Hamadeh lost by just 280 votes, according to an automatic statewide recount.  

Arizona Senate President Warren Peterson and House Speaker Ben Toma also filed an amicus brief this week in support of Hamadeh requesting a new trial. 

"I want to thank Senate President @votewarren and House Speaker @RepBenToma for filing an amicus brief in support of our special action requesting a new trial at the AZ Supreme Court," Hamadeh wrote on X, the platform previously called Twitter. "It’s time to count the remaining 9,000 ballots. Let's go win."

During a hearing in May, Hamadeh’s attorney James Sabalos, argued that a sample of ballots needs to be reviewed to find undervotes, which are ballots that didn’t have a candidate selected for the attorney general’s race, because some ballots were misread as undervotes.