Nov. 10 (UPI) — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said Sunday that despite Donald Trump being elected president, she has no intention to drop a criminal case against his allies who attempted to overturn her state’s election results in 2020.
“I have no intention of breaking that case up,” Mayes told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi. “I have no intention of dropping that case.”
Eleven Republicans and seven top aides to Trump were indicted by an Arizona grand jury in late April on accusations of conspiring to keep the former president in the White House through the use of fake electors, despite Joe Biden winning the state by more than 10,000 votes.
In the wake of Trump being re-elected president last week, there has been concern that he may make good on his promise to prosecute his political allies.
Over the last several day, Trump’s legal adviser and potential attorney general Mike Davis has made comments suggesting they might come after New York Attorney General Letitia James, who won a $355 million civil fraud verdict against Trump, and special counsel Jack Smith, who was is prosecuting the president-elect for attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
Asked about Davis’ comments, Mayes said they will not be intimidate.
“A grand jury in the state of Arizona decided that these individuals who engaged in an attempt to overthrow our democracy in 2020 should be held accountable,” she said. “So we won’t be cowed and we won’t be intimidated, and patriots across the country must stand up for our Constitution, for what is lawful and we will do that.”
Among those charged in the Arizona case include former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
In August, Loraine Pellegrino, one of 11 Republicans charged in the case with masquerading as state presidential electors as part of the conspiracy, pleaded guilty in August.
Though rumored to be a potential attorney general in the next Trump administration, Davis on X said he is not under consideration for the position.