On Thursday, the #LawyerForThePeople called a press conference to announce that a grand jury had indicted five suspects in a scheme to defraud Arizona’s universal voucher program.

That’s not entirely true.

She wasn’t really at the press conference to announce indictments.

She was there to make them.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes stood before the media horde and indicted — not in the legal, but purely political sense — the Republicans who designed and now operate the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program.

“This program is ripe for abuse,” she told the media.

In a sit-down with 12 News reporter Brahm Resnik, she said, “The problem is that what this scam and scheme shows is that it’s very easy to cheat, and it’s very easy to get a fake birth certificate past the Arizona Department of Education. So why weren’t there more controls?”

Good question.

For which the #LawyerForThePeople had her ready answer.

“I think it starts with the Legislature that passed legislation that doesn’t have controls.........

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