(born Nov 25, 1966) an American attorney and politician who was the 26th Attorney General of Arizona from 2015 to 2023. He’s a career politician who has fought LGBTQ agendas being taught in school, does not fall for the climate change hoax, has fought big tech overreach and Obamacare. Brnovich clamors for Trump’s endorsement and touts himself as a pro-Trump conservative, but Trump has criticized him for allowing the certification of AZ’s stolen election. Explosive new (March 2022) documents prove his office actively considered prosecuting pro-Trump electors in the state who rightfully questioned the dubious official results of the presidential election of 2020. He is married to Susan Brnovich, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.[2]
Background
Brnovich was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1966. His parents were Serbs who had immigrated from former Yugoslavia, his father from Montenegro, and his mother from Split, Croatia. He has said that his mother emigrated to the United States to escape communism. Brnovich and his family moved to Arizona when he was young.[3][4] Brnovich received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Arizona State University and a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law.[5][6] While at Arizona State, Brnovich was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.[7]
2020 Election
Video and photographic evidence was presented to Mark Brnovich of ballot traffickers stuffing ballot boxes on the day of the August 4th, 2020, Primary Election, 3 months before the stolen 2020 election, but he chose to do nothing about it. Brnovich released a report on his 2020 election investigation where he stated that individuals will be prosecuted for various 2020 election crimes, bu failed to mention any crimes committed by the Arizona ballot cartel.1
The Arizona vote was among the most contentious in America, with a mere 0.3 percent, just over 10,000 votes, separating Biden and President Trump in the official tally. Given the highly questionable conduct of the election, including widespread voting by illegal migrants and violations of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection clause, several rival slates of electors formed in Arizona.
Ultimately, the Biden slate was unduly and prematurely certified by Governor Ducey, but with enormous controversy.
As reported by The Arizona Republic, Brnovich’s office requested information from the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) about a document they had received from one of the pro-Trump slates, a group known as the Sovereign Citizens of the Great State of Arizona (SCGSA). Prosecutors in Brnovich’s office gave the OFR specific instructions on how to deliver the documents to Arizona so that Attorney General Brnovich could use them as evidence to prosecute the group. Read More Here…
Attorney General of Arizona
Americans with Disability Act lawsuits
In August 2016, the Arizona Attorney General’s office took action in the Maricopa County Superior Court and filed to intervene in over 1,000 lawsuits initiated by an advocacy group that flooded courts with duplicative disability access lawsuits targeting mostly small businesses.[15] By intervening, the Attorney General’s office made itself a part of the cases and argued that the plaintiffs’ group, Advocates for Individuals with Disabilities, exceeded its legal authority and was not allowed to collect fees on these types of lawsuits.
In September 2016, a judge agreed to allow the Attorney General’s office to intervene and consolidated the cases while also preventing Advocates for Individuals with Disabilities from filing new lawsuits.[16] In December 2016, the office filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuits and a judge granted the request in February 2017, dismissing over 1,000 of the lawsuits. After the ruling, Brnovich said “Arizona is not going to tolerate serial litigators who try to shake down small hardworking businesses by exploiting the disability community.”[17]
Consumer protection
As attorney general, Brnovich undertook efforts in the area of consumer protection and advocacy, including the opioid epidemic.[18] Notable consumer settlements included a $4.65 million settlement in 2017 with Theranos, Inc. to resolve an Arizona Consumer Fraud Act case over allegations that the company’s advertisements misrepresented the accuracy and reliability of more than 1.5 million blood tests sold between 2013 and 2016. Under the settlement, the 76,000 Arizonans who received a blood test over that time period received a full refund (averaging $60.92) and Theranos was also banned from owning, operating, or directing a lab in Arizona for two years.[19][20]
In 2018, the state announced that a consumer fraud settlement had been reached with General Motors (“GM”) that would pay an additional $6.28 million in payments to Arizona consumers as part of claims related to GM’s installation of faulty ignition switches.[21] The settlement impacted 33,000 Arizonans who purchased certain cars between 2009 and 2014. According to Brnovich, Arizona was the first state to obtain restitution directly for consumers as part of a settlement with GM related to faulty ignition switch claims.[22] GM previously settled claims with 49 other states, but Arizona filed their own lawsuit focusing on consumer restitution. Under that lawsuit, Arizona would have received $2 million and the money would not have gone to consumers.[23][22]
In 2018, Brnovich announced that Volkswagen had agreed to settle a consumer fraud lawsuit with the State of Arizona for $40 million over its diesel emissions scandal. The settlement directed $10.5 million to Arizona consumers who had purchased certain Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche vehicles for restitution, $20 million to the state’s budget to help fund K-12 education, and the remaining money for consumer protection and enforcement purposes.[24] Arizona was the only state to obtain additional restitution on behalf of consumers as a result of state enforcement actions.[25]
In October 2020, Brnovich announced a $71 million settlement with Ticketmaster that provided refunds to consumers who purchased tickets to live events in Arizona that were cancelled, postponed, or rescheduled due to COVID-19.[26] The settlement covered 650 Arizona events and allowed consumers to receive a full refund if their event was impacted by COVID-19 and they purchased their tickets before March 14, 2020.[27]
Death penalty
Arizona has not carried out an execution since 2014. In a 2019 letter to Governor Doug Ducey, Brnovich called for a resumption of executions in Arizona, writing, “Those who commit the ultimate crime deserve the ultimate punishment.”[28] In 2021, Brnovich announced that the state would seek warrants of execution for two death row inmates that had exhausted their appeals.[29] In 2021, Brnovich petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse decisions of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in two death penalty cases.[30]
Environment
Shortly after taking office, Brnovich sued the Barack Obama administration for its “Clean Power Plan”, a green new deal / Agenda 21 trojan horse disguised as climate change. In 2017, Brnovich filed an amicus brief in support of ExxonMobil after the company was issued a subpoena by the Attorney General of New York in an investigation into whether the company had misled investors about the risks posed by climate change. Brnovich’s brief defended ExxonMobil and argued that there was no scientific consensus on climate change. In 2021, Brnovich joined 11 other states in suing the Biden administration for calculating a social cost caused by climate change (rather than just market costs).
Google data privacy
In 2018, The Washington Post reported that Brnovich was investigating Google for its alleged practice of recording users’ tracking data even after a user opted out of the location tracking function.[35] The investigation was reportedly launched following a 2018 Associated Press article titled “Google tracks your movements, like it or not,” which detailed how users are led to believe Google provided users the ability to actually disable their location history. Google told users that “with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored.” The Associated Press reported that this statement was false and that even with location history turned off, Google continues to collect location information through other settings and uses that information to sell ads.[36]
In May 2020, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office sued Google, alleging consumer fraud in connection with alleged user privacy violations.[37][38] The state alleges that Google violated Arizona consumer protection laws by creating Android operating systems that deceived “opt-out” users into believing their personal data is being protected and thereby enriched its advertising revenue.[37]
Health care
Brnovich opposes the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and has signed on to lawsuits seeking to invalidate the law.[39][40] Brnovich has argued that the ACA is “deceptive, ineffective and eventually unconstitutional.”[39]
Immigration
Brnovich filed a lawsuit against the Joe Biden administration after the administration halted construction of a wall on the Mexico–United States barrier.[41] Brnovich argued that the border wall was needed because of the adverse environmental impact that migrants might have.[41][42]
Lawsuit against the Arizona Board of Regents
On September 8, 2017, Brnovich sued the Arizona Board of Regents, saying the entity in charge of setting tuition for Arizona universities had “dramatically and unconstitutionally” increased tuition and fees over the last 15 years. In the lawsuit, Brnovich said the Board of Regents had “abandoned its duty to serve as a check on the university presidents” by allowing an “unprecedented series of lockstep tuition hikes” that violates the state’s constitutional mandate requiring tuition for in-state students at college to be “as nearly free as possible.”[43]
The constitutionality challenge included an additional charge against the Board of Regents for continuing to provide in-state tuition for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient students. A state Court of Appeals previously ruled in June 2017[44] that DACA students don’t have “lawful immigration status” and therefore don’t qualify for in-state tuition because of a 2006 voter-approved measure that prohibits in-state tuition and financial aid for undocumented college students.[45] On April 9, 2018, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled in a 7–0 decision that state colleges and universities could no longer provide in-state tuition to individuals who were covered under DACA.[46] That same day, the Arizona Board of Regents announced that they would no longer be providing in-state tuition for DACA students in upcoming semesters.[47]
In 2019, Brnovich sued Arizona State University (ASU) and the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) over a real estate deal that he alleged was illegal because it violated the Arizona Constitution’s Gift Clause. Brnovich alleged that a hotel project in downtown Tempe was improperly given a tax exemption for the hotel because it was being built on tax-exempt university property.[48][49][50] Representatives from ABOR and ASU defended the practice, saying they collect a payment from the hotel in lieu of taxes and that extra money helps the school general revenue.[51] The Arizona Tax Court dismissed Brnovich’s suit as time-barred in 2021, and the dismissal was upheld by the Arizona Court of Appeals in 2021.[50][52] In 2021, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled that Brnovich had to pay almost $1 million of legal fees to the Arizona Board of Regents.[52]
LGBT rights
In 2015, Brnovich backed a Louisiana amicus brief before the Supreme Court which argued that states should be allowed to prohibit same-sex marriage.[53]
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prohibitions on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional, Brnovich instructed Arizona’s child safety agency that only married heterosexual couples should be allowed to adopt children.[54] Arizona Governor Doug Ducey disagreed with Brnovich’s legal advice and instructed the department to overturn the policy. Brnovich did not challenge Ducey’s order.[55][56]
In 2016, Brnovich announced that Arizona would join ten other states in a Texas lawsuit against the Barack Obama administration which had directed public schools to allow students to use bathrooms and showers based on their gender identity (even if that is different from the student’s biological sex) or risk losing Title IX funding.[57]
In 2017 and 2018, Brnovich defended the right of businesses to refuse to serve same-sex couples.[58][59]
In 2019, Brnovich supported efforts to repeal a 1991 law that prohibited “promotion of a homosexual lifestyle” in public schools, after the law was challenged as unconstitutional.[60]
Petition for Corporation Commissioner’s removal
In November 2015, Brnovich filed a special action with the Arizona Supreme Court to remove Republican Susan Bitter Smith from her position on the Arizona Corporation Commission over allegations that she had violated state conflict-of-interest laws because of her work in the private sector involving cable companies that are overseen by the office she was elected to.[61] Smith denied wrongdoing. Her subsequent resignation in January 2016 rendered Brnovich’s lawsuit moot.[62]
Regulatory fintech sandbox
In 2018, Arizona enacted legislation making it the first U.S. state to implement a regulatory fintech (financial technology) sandbox.[63] The fintech sandbox is administered by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and was authored and championed by Brnovich, who promoted the initiative as a way to advance fintech start-ups and reduce regulatory hurdles to fintech.[63] In total, ten businesses participated in the initiative.[64][65]
Voting rights and redistricting
Brnovich personally argued against the map drawn by Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission before the Supreme Court of the United States on December 8, 2015, in the Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission case, arguing that the independent redistricting commission drew a map favorable to Democrats.[66]
After the 2020 election, Arizona’s Republican-led Senate hired a cybersecurity firm to audit over two million ballots from Maricopa County.[67] Arizona’s crooked Secretary of State Katie Hobbs tried to stop the audit by claiming she was concerned about security leaks during the audit. Brnovich responded and said the Department of Justice would not intervene without credible facts.[68]
In 2016, Arizona passed a bill to restrict ballot harvesting unless the person collecting the ballot is a family member, a person living in the same household, or a caregiver. Brnovich intervened on behalf of the state after the Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs refused to defend the law. In the case of Brnovich v. DNC, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Democratic National Committee’s arguments to water down election integrity laws and upheld the law. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the decision defending the ability of states to put voting rules in place that eliminates voter fraud. Wanting to prevent voter fraud is, Alito made clear, a “strong and entirely legitimate state interest.”[2]
Other
From 2017 to 2018, Brnovich was the Chairman of the Conference of Western Attorneys General, a non-partisan organization of Attorneys General. Brnovich chose to focus his Chair’s Initiative on cyber security and data privacy.[73]
From 2017 to 2018, Brnovich was appointed to Protecting America’s Seniors: Attorneys General United Against Elder Abuse, a bipartisan group of state attorneys general The initiative was established to focus on strengthening efforts nationwide to combat elder abuse.[74]
In December 2017, Brnovich was recognized by the Arizona Capitol Times as a “Leader of the Year” in the category of Public Safety. The Capitol Times stated: “It’s his non-political work in the area of law enforcement and consumer protection and advocacy that is earning Brnovich a lot of praise. In addition to going after fraudsters and scammers, Brnovich has zeroed in on the opioid epidemic, busting suspected opioid rings and in a bold move, charging a major manufacturer of the drug of deceptive practices designed to reap profits at patients’ expense.”[18]
Brnovich worked with Representative Shawnna Bolick to draft a bill allowing human and sex trafficking victims to take civil action against their perpetrators. The bill was signed into law in March 2021.[75][76]
2022 U.S. Senate race
In June 2021, Brnovich launched a campaign for the Republican primary for the United States Senate in the 2022 election.[77] Considered a front-runner in the primary, Brnovich has been criticized by former President Donald Trump for not seeking to overturn the Arizona election results from the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which was stolen from Trump by Joe Biden.[78] Trump has not made an endorsement in the race, but has held a fundraiser with Republican candidate Blake Masters.[79]
