Alan Dershowitz’s Election Sanctions Case Sparks Court Clash (1)

A pair of cases involving court sanctions against Alan Dershowitz and other attorneys for the failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake drew heated exchanges at federal appeals court hearing Wednesday.

Judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit considered whether to uphold the sanctions, which were entered by the Arizona district court that found Lake’s lawsuit challenging the state vote tabulation process was frivolous.

Judge Kim Wardlaw, a Clinton appointee, scrutinized arguments by Dershowitz’s attorneys that the famed Harvard Law School professor shouldn’t be subject to the sanctions because he only signed onto the case in ...