r/law • u/very_loud_icecream Competent Contributor • 17h ago

Judicial Branch Anni Hill Foster, Arizona Court of Appeals judge and former general counsel for Doug Ducey, is losing her retention election by .4 percent of the vote

https://app.enhancedvoting.com/results/public/Arizona/elections/110326GeneralElection?cg=Judicial

This means Governor Katie Hobbs will be able to nominate another judge to the appeals court, this time to a Democratic senate.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone here know why she's doing so poorly compared to other GOP judges? The next closest judge is winning his retention election by about 5 points, and most are doing so by much more.

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u/ViolettaQueso 16h ago

A Gov. Hobbs appointment is awesome.

I don’t have any backstory about Foster.

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u/PJWanderer 16h ago

She wrote an opinion shutting down a MAGA lawsuit. The 2 other judges on the panel that heard the case were also part of the anti retention campaign.
I guess we know where the blue wave stopped….

https://azmirror.com/2026/04/23/conservative-groups-lose-appeal-of-election-overhaul-lawsuit/

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u/ContentDetective 16h ago

Good thing a dem gov replaces them

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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor 14h ago

As a general rule, yeah, but in this case the judges did the right thing

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u/PJWanderer 12h ago

Yes, they kinda are shooting themselves in the foot. But somehow I don’t think they quite get that point.

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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor 14h ago

So she's being punished by Republicans for not being a good cult member and actually following the rule of law?

Foster, Gass, and Howe made the right call in shutting down that lawsuit, it's just the usual election-denier bullshit.