Overview
- The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday, June 4, 2026, declined to review Attorney General Kris Mayes’s appeal, leaving a lower-court order that sends the 2024 indictment back to a grand jury intact.
- A Maricopa County judge earlier found the original grand jurors were not shown the full text of the federal Electoral Count Act, and that procedural flaw is the reason the indictment must be re-presented.
- Mayes’s office said it will present the case in full to a new grand jury rather than dismiss the matter, restarting the process that produced charges of forgery, fraud and conspiracy against 18 people.
- The indictment names high-profile figures including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and multiple Arizona Republicans who signed alternate-elector certificates, and federal pardons issued in November 2025 do not block state prosecution.
- The decision keeps Arizona’s case alive as part of a patchwork of state prosecutions over the 2020 post-election effort, and it raises immediate political pressure because Mayes faces a 2026 reelection campaign and GOP rivals have pledged to drop the case.