Arizona’s Supreme Court sent part of Kari Lake‘s appeal of her 2022 governor’s race defeat back to a trial court for review while refusing to hear the rest of the claims.

The remaining piece of the legal challenge concerns how Maricopa County, which includes the capital of Phoenix and is Arizona’s most populous county, performed signature verifications for early ballots.

An order from the high court late Wednesday said the superior court and Arizona Court of Appeals made an “erroneous” decision to reject the claim because of their focus on election procedures rather than the application of those procedures in last November’s contest as cited in Lake’s claim. Lake now faces the challenge of establishing that mail-in votes were affected “in sufficient numbers to alter the outcome” of last November’s election.

My statement on the Arizona Supreme Court ruling in favor of our case ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/pxo8j0Ubs2

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) March 23, 2023

“I am thrilled that the Supreme Court has agreed to give our signature verification evidence the appropriate forum for the evaluation it deserves,” Lake said in a statement.

The Arizona Supreme Court order, signed by Chief Justice Robert Brutinel, also called on Lake’s team to file a reply to the defendants’ motions for sanctions in regard to the assertion of there being “the undisputed fact that 35,563 unaccounted for ballots were added to the total of ballots at a third party facility.”

The order said the “record does not reflect” such a claim and noted the motions of sanctions “will be considered in due course.”

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The AZ Supreme Court is refusing to hear 6 of 7 claims brought by @KariLake regarding her loss to @katiehobbs, and is reminding a 7th, which alleges Maricopa County violated signature verification procedures for early ballots, back to trial court. pic.twitter.com/bB8K0CQ8ns

— Jeremy Duda (@jeremyduda) March 23, 2023

Lake, a former journalist who made election integrity a top priority of her campaign, sued after the results showed that she lost the November contest to Democrat Katie Hobbs by roughly 17,000 votes in the governor’s race. Hobbs was sworn in as governor in early January.

Lake’s 2022 election complaint raised allegations of misconduct and illegal votes with issues ranging from mail-in ballots, chain-of-custody, and problematic ballot printers. Maricopa County officials acknowledged issues with the election, but insisted every valid vote in the contest had been counted.

After Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson threw out Lake’s challenge, the appellate rejected the case in February, writing that voters were “able to cast their ballots, that votes were counted correctly, and that no other basis justifies setting aside the election results.”

Throughout, Lake said she would not give in, vowing to take her case to the high court.

Two other Republican candidates, Abe Hamadeh and Mark Finchem, who ran for attorney general and secretary of state, respectively, also received unfavorable rulings in their legal challenges seeking to challenge their losses.

In the months since the November election, media reports have said Lake is mulling a Senate bid and former President Donald Trump is considering her as a possible vice presidential running mate.

For the second year in a row, President Biden has snubbed Hungary, excluding them from his “Summit for Democracy,” which has a guest list of 120 countries.

In October 2020, one month before the presidential election, Biden called the conservative, anti-woke Hungarian government led by Viktor Orban “totalitarian,” declaring, “You see what’s happening from Belarus through Poland and Hungary and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world.”  Neither Poland nor Hungary recognize gay marriage and they both have laws restricting gay adoption.

"You see what's happening in everything from Belarus to Poland to Hungary and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world and this president embraces all the thugs in the world," said @JoeBiden at his town hall event last night pic.twitter.com/Ix8R8bhQNc

— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) October 16, 2020

Roughly two weeks ago, Hungary’s justice minister, Judit Varga said the Orban government would fight in the Court of Justice of the EU to defend an education law that was passed in 2021; it banned the use of materials promoting homosexuality and gender change at schools.

In August 2022, Orban told CPAC, “We must take back the institutions in Washington and in Brussels. … To sum up, the mother is a woman. The father is a man, and leave our kids alone, full stop, end of discussion.”

Zoltan Koskovics of the Budapest Center for Fundamental Rights told The Heritage Foundation, “The woke sect that has taken over the Democratic Party does not like the pro-Western stance of our government. We need a strong America in a dangerous international situation. But not a woke America.”

In July 2022, the Hungarian government confirmed the Biden administration’s termination of the 1979 income tax treaty with the United States. It would cease to have effect starting in January 2024. The Biden administration reportedly terminated the treaty because Orban’s government opposed the EU Directive, which wanted to force a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%.  The Biden Treasury Department wrote it terminated the treaty because of Hungary’s “Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income.”

In October 2022, Péter Márki-Zay, Orbán’s biggest opponent, admitted that his Hungary for All Movement (MMM) had received millions of euros from the United States during his election campaign, funds reportedly transferred to his movement via an American foundation called Action for Democracy. He admitted his movement used the funds to pay for campaign bills.

Action for Democracy had reportedly named Italy, Brazil, Hungary, and Poland, all led by conservative governments at the time, as targets of their movement.