As Republican Kari Lake continues her campaign for U.S. Senate, the lawyers who represented the Republican in her failed effort to overturn the results of the 2022 election for Arizona governor are both facing court discipline.
Presiding Disciplinary Judge Margaret Downie has already found that both attorneys who worked on the election challenge trial and appeals — Washington, D.C., employment attorney Kurt Olsen and Scottsdale divorce lawyer Bryan Blehm — violated their ethical obligations during the proceedings.
They’re both accused of submitting information they knew was false to the Arizona Supreme Court. During the appeals of Lake’s election challenges, they told the court that it was “an undisputed fact” that more than 35,000 illegal ballots were inserted into the count in the 2022 general election in Maricopa County.
But they provided no evidence of their claim, and the state and county have repeatedly denied that it happened, so both attorneys were ordered by the state’s high court last year to pay $2,000 in sanctions for making “false factual statements to the Court.”
