Kari Lake will have to face a civil trial for defamation brought by a top county elections chief in Arizona, court records and reports show. The Arizona Supreme Court has denied Lake’s petition to review a lower court decision ordering the lawsuit brought by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer to move forward against her, according to KPNX’s Brahm Resnik. Lake, a far-right former Phoenix news anchor who ran unsuccessfully for governor of Arizona in 2022 and is now mounting a campaign for Senate, was sued by Richer, himself a Republican, after she repeatedly claimed Richer helped rig the gu…