Arizona officials are tearing the letter to shreds — Republicans included. (via TheReidOut Blog)
And Borrelli leaned into arguments made by people intimately involved in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.In his letter sent to Arizona’s 15 counties, Borrelli states that Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives state legislators the authority to make these sorts of changes to elections. This legal theory of state legislatures and “plenary power” has become a focus of some on the right, and has been pushed for by attorneys like John Eastman.
Eastman was one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers who, in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 riot, lobbied the legal counsel for former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the election using “plenary authorities.”theory, the dubious legal argument that conservatives have pushed that claims legislatures can unilaterally impose draconian and discriminatory election laws without being overruled by state courts.
“If those requirements or certification process were to be changed, it would require a regular bill to be passed by the legislature and signed by the governor — which is not the case for this nonbinding resolution,”A spokesperson for Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes told the Arizona Mirror that the attorney general, a Democrat, agrees with Fontes’ interpretation.
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