Arizona courts have thrown out Distaff Trump's lawsuit to overturn the gubernatorial election. Lake will, of course, appeal, because denying reality is pretty much a bedrock Republican position in the Age of Trump.
The consistent failure of Republicans in front of judges demonstrates how wedded the GOP has become to the alternate universe of Fox/OANN/Newsmax. Those organizations have moved so far from objective reality that they have created a cocoon of disinformation that is as hard as diamonds. The more information contradicts their beliefs, the deeper that must mean the conspiracy goes.
Judges and courts, however, do not give a shit whether you "feel" like something is true or not. Whether you are Alex Jones, Kari Lake or Donald Trump, courts do not care about what you suspect, only what you can prove.
This is important to keep in mind as the Department of Justice considers charges against Trump related to January 6th. I think we all "know" that Trump was at the heart of the insurrection, but the ability of the DOJ to prove that will be tricky, given that you will need a paper trail and to establish Trump's motivations in the moment.
Still, the courts HAVE worked in large part to keep the excesses of Trumpism at bay.
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