Then-Attorney General
Mark Brnovich and Hoffman collaborated on issues that were rejected by mainstream legal analysts. In October 2022, Hoffman requested Brnovich to issue an opinion regarding whether migrant activity at the Arizona-Mexico border could be considered an "invasion." Brnovich then produced a controversial opinion supporting an “invasion” theory. Legal scholars dismissed the opinion as incompatible with the U.S. Constitution. In 2022, Hoffman sponsored HB2787, a bill to divide
Maricopa County into three new counties. Critics said his proposal was intended to punish election officials in Maricopa County for not overturning the 2020 election results based on Trump's false claims of fraud. He reintroduced the legislation in 2024, citing Maricopa County's large area and population. In 2024, Hoffman sponsored SB 1279, a bill to prohibit Satanic displays on public property, while still allowing other religious symbols. The bill was introduced in reaction to the
Satanic Temple's displays. During his tenure as a state Representative, Hoffman was vice-chair of the Arizona House's Committee on Government and Elections. He was also a member of the Committee on Appropriations. As of 2024, Hoffman chairs the Arizona Senate's Committee on Government and Director Nominations. He is the vice chair of the Committee on Appropriations, and is a member of the Committee on Transportation, Technology, and Missing Children. Hoffman stood in the way of a memorial being erected to honor the memory of
Don Bolles, an
Arizona Republic investigative reporter who covered the legislature, and who was killed in a car bombing by gangsters. As chair of the Government Affairs Committee, Hoffman did not give a bill to erect a memorial to Bolles a hearing, citing, "lots of important business."
Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election After
Democratic candidate
Joe Biden won the state of Arizona in the 2020 election, Hoffman was part of a slate of 11 Republican self-proclaimed "electors" who attempted to submit documents to the
National Archives and Records Administration saying that Arizona had been won by
Republican candidate
Donald Trump. The group of 11 claimed to be Arizona's electors, although Biden had won the state by 10,457 votes and the election results had already been certified by the state. Despite his indictment for his part in the fake elector scheme, Hoffman was elected as the National Committeeman to the
Republican National Committee. ==References==