Arizona Supreme Court rejects Kari Lake’s last bid to overturn 2022 loss

By Caitlin Sievers, for Arizona Mirror

It’s finally over.

After two years filled with losses and appeals, the Arizona Supreme Court has denied Kari Lake’s final petition in a court case aimed at overturning the results of the 2022 race for governor.

The high court’s decision, made behind closed doors without public comment, came one day after the Nov. 5 election. Lake ran in that election as the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, even though she never conceded her loss in the 2022 race for Arizona governor to Democrat Katie Hobbs.

Lake, who is trailing Democratic opponent Ruben Gallego in the Senate race, made a name for herself as a purveyor of the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, who endorsed her in 2022 and 2024. After the former Phoenix television news anchor lost the governor’s race by more than 17,000 votes, she claimed that the governorship had been stolen from her, just like the presidency had been stolen from Trump.

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