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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is seeking to oust newly appointed Navajo County Recorder David Marshall from his position, arguing that he isn’t eligible to hold the office under a long-disputed section of the state constitution.
Her legal challenge, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court on Thursday, comes on the heels of a similar lawsuit against Marshall, a former Republican state representative who quit his post to take the recorder’s appointment. Realtor Suzanne Hudspeth, who lost out to Marshall for the recorder job, filed that case earlier this week.
Both cases center on a provision of the state constitution that says “no member of the legislature” can hold a different elected office or government job “during the term for which he shall have been elected.”