effort to steal the election in 2020 face criminal convictions, they re growing calls against criminal charges against elected officials were trying to stop the lawful transfer of power this year, specifically in arizona. to republican members in the coaches county board of supervisors defied state law monday, refusing to certify the counties midterm election results. states former attorney general and the former republican maricopa attorney said in a lot of the prosecutor should consider criminal charges adding that they take no pleasure in making this prosecution recommendation. for me a county wrote, this craziness has to stop. the county is now being sued by arizona secretary stop state, the lone democrat on the board voted to certify was blunt about the fallout. anytime you break the law
there should be consequences and now we are in the throes of consequences. we in coaches county, being sued will have to find a lawyer to represent us and we won t be represented by the county attorney because the county attorney told us early on when you break the law i can t represent you. marc elias the voting rights litigation expert, and his law group is also suing the coaches county board of supervisors over the refusal to certify. he joins me now. marc i want to get into the specific case but before i do, we always do this have glass half empty half full sort of thing. but all the fears we had, this rogue county in arizona really does appear to be the only one doing this kind of flagrant frontal dereliction of their administrative and democratic duty? yeah i think that s right chris. there were two counties on monday that will fully fail to
representatives are breaking the law. yesterday they voted yesterday to hire the lawyer that represented the cyber ninjas. you remember? them just so folks remember, they were the ones that ran that crazy recount in maricopa county, privately funded. the ones with the bamboo for the chinese ballots, that was the cyber ninjas. continue. right, so they need any lawyer would be willing to represent them. so they figured, here s our guy. except they didn t check with him first. so late this afternoon, he basically said no, no i m not representing you. what right now with the largely doing is they re trying to figure out that they haven t filed an answer to the lawsuit as they are ordered to and they are to appear in court tomorrow. so i suspect they are trying to find a lawyer. but in all seriousness, what they are doing is they are breaking the law and they re breaking in arizona criminal law which is a felony by refusing to certify an election that they ve been told by the county att
its own precedence, but that it s already coming for and fundamental rights, as they re taking away the 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion. testing my own thesis here in the and should action of the segment, how much it was that clients thomas concurrence, which got a lot of attention, understandably, or he basically says that there is an entire line of cases, due process, liberty rights. what you can do in the sort of what you can be protective for the state interfering in. this is for familial and personal autonomy. there s a lot of cases, all hogwash, we want to come for all of it. how much did that factor in getting to this point where you have not gotten? this bill about to be passed by the house and signed into law. it was a huge impetus. a lot of time, folks will cater and legislation in the space. the only time you ll get a floor vote is if he perceived by the leadership and american public. i would also say that this is a
great rachel maddow. tonight on all in. there s a point that this case makes clear. the department will work tirelessly to hold accountable those responsible for crimes related to the attack on our democracy on january 6th, 2021. the attorney general underscores the landmark conviction of trump s footsoldiers to for conspiring to steal an election. tonight, rachel maddow on this historic decision for the justice department. what it means for the ongoing investigation of donald trump. then marc elias and what could be criminal charges for the rogue arizona officials trying to steal votes in cochise county. the county attorney told us early on when you break the law i can t represent you. plus, checking in on national republicans in disarray. i am 100% running for the rnc chairman against ronna