An Arizona judge ordered sanctions against Mark Finchem, an election denier who ran on the Republican ticket for Arizona’s secretary of state, for mounting a baseless challenge against the 2022 election results.
Used far, far too many times, but one can only say:
"ALL HAT, NO CATTLE."
…baseless… 
Sanctioning these walking colostomy bags is a badge of honor for them.
Good, not just losing patience but beginning to articulate what the real costs of political sabotage and assaults on the civil franchise might be and exacting some measure of accountability for those costs.
So how about some sanctions on the attorney who keeps filing/appealing this stupidity??
I want he should eat his hat. That would make things fair and square and right decent with me. I don’t know if that’s lawful, but it’s what’s coming to him for stirring things up so, I reckon.
“”"“Finchem still hasn’t conceded to Fontes, who’s since taken office”"""
And Fontes doesn’t give a rats ass about that.
Probably true but if they gave the situation deeper thought they’d see having a “rap sheet” from a Judge aint great cred the next time you stand in front of one.
The sanction amount wasn’t enough. $10k or $100k would MAYBE deter some from filing frivolous lawsuits.
The problem with sanctioning Finchem is that it’s not his personal money that will be used to pay any fines.
SO. MUCH. WINNING. 
Forget the fines, Ignore the sanctions.
But please stick a Saguaro Cactus in his mouth before a small child falls in there.
May he end up paying a lot more for his perfidy. Dude is basically a walking insurrection. For the moment.
This guy looks to be on an open-ended mission to self-own. By all means, please continue filing your law suits.
He wears the hat whenever he is roping goats.
ETA. Is Finchem the guy from Kalamazoo who was canned from the police department?
Finchem plans on appealing this decision, according to his attorney.
My understanding* is that if you appeal a financial sanctions order, usually you must first put the full amount of the sanctions in a court controlled escrow account. Makes collecting the sanctions much much easier when the appeal fails.
Of course, at this point we don’t know the full amount of the sanctions, since the defendants were given 20 days to document their attorney costs, and the court must still approve those numbers. So maybe they’ll hold off on the full appeal until they know how much they have to ante up.
*that would federal courts, not AZ state courts
The sanctions order applies to both. Who pays how much of it gets haggled between those two.
D. Sanctions Granted Based on its findings above, both Finchem and attorney McCauley filed this election contest “without substantial justification.” Under A.R.S. § 12-349, sanctions are appropriate. As set forth below, this Court will award reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred by Secretary-Elect Fontes
and Secretary Hobbs in defending this action as a sanction for the filing and will allocate those
fees as appropriate between Finchem and McCauley. The Court declines, however, to award any additional penalty or damages authorized by the statute beyond the fees actually and reasonably
incurred.
The attorney costs part of the sanctions, which is the meat of it, has yet to be determined. They have 20 days to submit the attorney costs they incurred.
According to Wikipedia, he wasn’t technically fired: “Finchem retired from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety in 1999; personnel records included the note “poor rating, would not rehire”.”