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Arizona Republicans who had been calling for the most extreme abortion restrictions possible are abruptly flip-flopping now that the 100% Republican-appointed Arizona Supreme Court has given them exactly what they had been working for. 😳

Most Republicans had been calling for the repeal of Roe v. Wade since the US Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973. When the GOP-majority SCOTUS overturned Roe in 2022, Republicans began to realize that most Americans didn't want Christian fundamentalist overseers in every bedroom and doctor's office in the US.

These sudden changes of opinion on abortion by Republicans are more fake than Trump's face color.

CNN anchor rolls tape on Arizona politician's abortion stance before the state Supreme Court ruling

Don't believe Republicans pretending to be moderate on abortion. They had been striving to make abortion illegal since 1973 and when they succeeded, they absolutely gloated about it.

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Trudy Ring at The Advocate:

Hillary Clinton and Kelly Clarkson joined in denouncing the Arizona Supreme Court’s recent abortion ruling when Clinton appeared on Monday’s edition of The Kelly Clarkson Show. The court ruled last week that Arizona could enforce a law from 1864 — before Arizona was a state or women had the right to vote — that bans abortion except in cases where the pregnant person’s life is threatened.

“Did you ever think in your lifetime that we would see that happen?” Clarkson asked Clinton. “It’s just insane to me, the thinking that went on in 1864 … it’s a very different world, we know a lot more now, that we’re going backwards.” “It is horrifying in every way,” Clinton said. “I feared it would happen, but I hoped it wouldn’t happen, and now here we are in the middle of this very difficult period for women in about half the states in our country who cannot get the care that they need, and the old law in Arizona is without exceptions, and the danger to women’s lives as well as our right to make our own decisions about our bodies and ourselves is so profound.” “And there’s another element to it which I find so troubling,” the former presidential candidate continued. “There is a kind of cruelty to it. No exceptions for rape, incest — I mean, really?” “And you don’t realize how hard it is,” Clarkson said. “The fact that you would take that away from someone [in a situation] that can literally kill them? The fact that they’re raped … by their family member? It’s just like insane to me.”

On the Monday episode of NBCU's The Kelly Clarkson Show, guest Hillary Clinton and the show's titular host Kelly Clarkson discussed how horrifyingly harmful Arizona's Civil War-era abortion ban is.

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From the 04.15.2024 edition of NBCUniversal's The Kelly Clarkson Show:

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Alanna Vagianos at HuffPost:

Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a campaign event in Arizona on Friday following the state Supreme Court’s recent ruling that an 1864 near-total abortion ban can go into effect. “Here in Arizona, they have turned the back the clock to the 1800s to take away a woman’s most fundamental right, the right to make decisions over her own body,” Harris told a crowd in Tucson. “The overturning of Roe was, without any question, a seismic event. And this ban here in Arizona is one of the biggest aftershocks yet.” The near-total ban won’t go into effect until 45 days after the Arizona Supreme Court issues its formal ruling.

The Arizona high court greenlit the reinstatement of the archaic abortion law — which predates Arizona’s statehood — earlier this week. It bans nearly all abortions except for when the pregnant person’s life is at risk. It also carries a felony punishment of two to five years in prison for abortion providers. Harris emphasized how important the outcome of the 2024 election will be for reproductive rights, adding that former President Donald Trump will sign a national abortion ban if reelected in the fall. “We all must understand who is to blame. Former President Donald Trump did this,” Harris said. “Donald Trump is the architect of this health care crisis. And that is not a fact, by the way, that he hides. In fact, he brags about it.”

Harris warned that if reelected, Trump could choose to enforce the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that states it’s illegal to send “obscene” materials in the mail including items that relate to sexual health and contraception. Anti-choice conservative groups have laid out a plan to enforce the zombie law and create a backdoor national abortion ban. “Just like what he did in Arizona, he basically wants to take America back to the 1800s,” Harris said. “But we are not going to let that happen.” Trump has continually boasted about his role in appointing the three Supreme Court justices who were critical in repealing Roe v. Wade. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee said this week that he believes abortion rights should be left to the states, but later said the Arizona ruling went too far. He also claimed he would not sign a national abortion ban if he gets to the White House, though past reporting suggests he has at least considered implementing a 15- or 16-week ban. Trump, who has aligned himself with extreme anti-abortion groups, could still enact the Comstock Act or direct the Food and Drug Administration to roll back access to abortion pills.

VP Kamala Harris is correct: Donald Trump is the root cause for all the abortion bans being enacted.

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On the same day that the Arizona House of Representatives voted to repeal an abortion ban from the 19th Century, a trio of anti-abortion Republicans launched an ethics complaint against top Democratic lawmakers who angrily protested an earlier move to block that vote, accusing them of intimidating GOP lawmakers and inciting a riot.

On April 9, the Arizona Supreme Court revived a near-total ban on abortions from 1864, ruling that it trumps a 15-week gestational ban passed in 2022.

The decision left GOP lawmakers scrambling, with some fearful of the political repercussions in November but most unwilling to move against the party’s pro-life stance. On Wednesday, Democrats were finally able to peel away three Republican lawmakers to narrowly repeal the law by a vote of 32 to 28, but that success followed several high profile failures, including one that culminated in a vehement reaction on the House floor just a day after the state Supreme Court’s ruling.

When the GOP majority voted to pause the floor session instead of allowing a bill to repeal the 1864 near-total ban to be heard on April 10, Democrats erupted into loud shouts of protest, yelling “Shame!,” “Hold the vote!” and “Blood on your hands!” and pointing accusingly at Republican lawmakers across the chamber.

That display has been repeatedly denounced by Arizona Republicans, who have compared it to “insurrectionist behavior” and cited it as part of their reasoning for delaying a vote on the repeal for two weeks. And on April 24, the same day the House repealed the 1864 law, Republican Reps. Jacqueline Parker, Barbara Parker and David Marshall reiterated that criticism in an ethics complaint filed against Democratic Reps. Oscar De Los Santos and Analise Ortiz. The two led their party in excoriating Republicans that day.

In their letters to House Ethics Committee Chairman Joseph Chaplik, the trio call for an investigation into De Los Santos and Ortiz, accusing them both of “disorderly, inappropriate, and disruptive behavior unbecoming of an elected official and embarrassing to the House of Representatives on a national stage.” While Ortiz is only accused of violating the legislature’s definition of disorderly conduct, De Los Santos, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, is accused of three separate violations, including meeting the legislature’s threshold for disorderly conduct and breaking procedural rules and decorum standards governing debate in the chamber.

While disorderly conduct isn’t a crime under Arizona law, the complaint lodged against De Los Santos and Ortiz defines it based on a legal definition from 1910 which describes it as an act that “scandalizes” people, is “offensive to the public sense of morality,” conflicts with the rules around “good order and decorum” or is “contrary” to law. De Los Santos, write the trio, violated all three of those qualifications when he “incited a riot on the House Floor” and shouted and insulted lawmakers. Because De Los Santos began protesting before the chamber could vote on a motion to recess rather than allow the repeal bill to be considered, the complaint alleges that he sought to interfere with the legislative process.

“Given his actions were intended to threaten members and force the House to act in accordance with his will, they could even be characterized as an attempted insurrection,” reads the complaint against De Los Santos.

The complaint against Ortiz includes similar allegations and accuses her of disrespecting Republican lawmakers and exhibiting behavior “unbecoming of an elected representative.”

Also included as evidence of disorderly conduct in the complaint is the duo’s disruption of an impromptu press conference held by Republican Rep. Matt Gress shortly after the House failed to support his bid to repeal the 1864 near-total ban. Gress, who is seeking reelection in a swing district, pushed for the House to consider the repeal bill on April 10 but later voted with the rest of the majority party to table the matter instead.

While Gress spoke to reporters about his commitment to continue advocating for the repeal on the House floor shortly after the rest of the Republican Party had dispersed in the face of criticism from Democrats, Ortiz and De Los Santos, along with other Democrats, approached and accused him of lying and not caring if women died. Gress, Ortiz told reporters, has previously supported bills that have the potential to codify fetal personhood and his vote to recess the floor session instead of forcing a vote on the repeal bill showcased his insincerity.

A picture of Democrats shouting at Gress is included in the complaint, and a reference is made to a recording Ortiz made of the encounter, in which she stated an intent to disrupt Gress’ remarks to reporters.

“As the riot continued, Representative Ortiz participated in the disruption of a press conference by shouting at members from across the floor and charging the personal desks of Republican members,” reads the complaint. “Her own recording of the encounter captures her statement, ‘I think we need to disrupt his conference over here,’ and depicts her charging across the House Floor to Representative Gress and engaging in name-calling in front of the press.”

Gress did not respond to requests for comment on the complaint, or about whether he would be willing to testify to support it in an ethics hearing.

The complaint added that the angry yelling from Democrats, movement towards Republican lawmakers and De Los Santos’ “hovering” near Republican desks and “invading the personal space” of some lawmakers amounted to intimidation.

“Several members felt that their personal safety could be at risk and the sergeant at arms was approached to ask him what he could do. This outburst completely shattered the decorum and civility of the chamber and disgraced every one of its members,” reads the complaint.

De Los Santos and Ortiz have until May 1 to file written responses. While it’s under the purview of the House Ethics committee whether to take up the investigation, the options for punishing the duo are limited as final actions against them must be voted on by the entire House.

The committee can recommend that the two be censured, which Republicans, who hold a one-vote majority, can follow up on. But expelling Ortiz or De Los Santos requires a two-thirds supermajority vote, and Democratic support for such a motion will not happen, especially given that De Los Santos has already been the recipient of Republican retaliation after the repeal of the 1864 law. On Wednesday, shortly after the law was successfully struck down by the House, GOP leadership stripped the Laveen Democrat of his committee assignments.

In an emailed statement, Minority Leader Lupe Contreras denounced the complaints as just another attempt to punish Democrats for spearheading the vote to repeal the 1864 ban and voicing their disapproval of the GOP push to block it.

“These complaints are nothing more than retaliation against our members who reacted to a clear abuse of the process by a Republican Speaker pro tem who refused to recognize one of our members and instead went forward with a substitute motion to recess the chamber to avoid a vote on the 1864 total abortion ban repeal,” Contreras said. “In spite of the over-top rhetoric in the complaints, that’s all this was. The fact that the Speaker has already punished Assistant Leader De Los Santos by stripping him of his committees before an ethics hearing has even taken place only underscores and accentuates the abuse of process.”

Progressive organizations defended the free speech rights of the two Democrats and highlighted the accusations of insurrection as ironic.

“Utilizing your First Amendment right to speak out against a Civil War era abortion ban is democracy in action,” Alejandra Gomez, executive director of LUCHA, said in a written statement. “This baseless complaint from Arizona Republicans is full of irony, as they themselves have ties to the January 6th insurrection. This is nothing but a desperate attempt to silence dissent and a waste of time and resources.”

For Ortiz and De Los Santos, the complaints led to a fundraising opportunity. In posts on social media site X, the two criticized the complaints as groundless and asked for help covering their legal costs and bolstering their reelection campaigns.

“@RepAnaliseOrtiz & I held the line against the extreme 1864 total ban on abortion. Now, MAGA Republicans are retaliating by filing meritless ethics complaints against us. Please donate to cover our legal fees & ensure we are both re-elected,” wrote De Los Santos.

“When we said ‘shame on you’, we spoke for millions. We won’t be silenced. Help us fight this,” added Ortiz.

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The Arizona Supreme Court revives an old law from 1864. The Civil War reenactments aren't enough anymore?

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LDS is not a “faith”.

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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes' path: From Yale to jail

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes’ path: From Yale to jail

PHOENIX (AP) — Long before he assembled one of the largest far-right anti-government militia groups in U.S. history, before his Oath Keepers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes was a promising Yale Law School graduate. He secured a clerkship on the Arizona Supreme Court, in part thanks to his unusual life story: a stint as an Army paratrooper cut short by a training accident,…

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Democrats in the Arizona legislature are trying to get rid of the 1864 state abortion ban but majority Republicans keep blocking them.

AZ House Republicans block Dems from repealing Civil War-era abortion ban The GOP contends any change would be rushed, Dems contend they've been making attempts to repeal for years

This is probably just a coincidence... 😉

At the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia Prof. Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball has changed its ratings for the open Arizona seat in the US Senate seat and for one US House seat in the state.

The easiest way to Restore Roe nationwide is to Vote Democratic.

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Unbelievable

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The Arizona Court of Appeals on Friday blocked a trial court’s decision that allowed immediate enforcement of a pre-statehood law that criminalizes nearly all abortions.

The ruling means that abortions can again take place in Arizona, at least for now, unless the state Supreme Court steps in.

The three-judge panel agreed with Planned Parenthood that the judge should not have lifted the decades-old order blocking its enforcement.

The brief order written by Presiding Judge Peter J. Eckerstrom said Planned Parenthood and its Arizona affiliate had shown they are likely to prevail on an appeal of a decision by the judge in Tucson to allow enforcement of the old law. They said the judge should have considered a host of laws restricting abortions passed since the original injunction was put in place following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade that said women have a constitutional right to an abortion.

Those laws include a new one blocking abortions after 15 weeks’ pregnancy that took effect last month.

The Supreme Court overruled Roe in June, and Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich then asked that the injunction blocking enforcement of the pre-statehood abortion be lifted. Pima Court Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson agreed on Sept. 23 and lifted the order two weeks ago.

Providers across the state stopped abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court decision, but many restarted procedures in mid-summer. That came after a federal judge blocked a separate “personhood” law they worried would allow criminal charges against doctors and nurses. They halted again after Johnson’s ruling.

The appeals court said the trial court erred by limiting its analysis only to the attorney general’s request to lift the injunction issued after Roe was handed down and refusing to consider the later laws passed by the Legislature to regulate abortion.

“Arizona courts have a responsibility to attempt to harmonize all of this state’s relevant statutes,” Eckerstrom wrote, mirroring arguments made by attorneys for Planned Parenthood.

The appeals court set a hearing for next week to consider whether to set an expedited schedule for hearing Planned Parenthood’s full appeal.

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Supreme Court Bracket

Remember that this is a silly Tumblr poll, and these two things are not actually in conflict. So don't get too heated in the notes.

Miranda Rights. Inculpatory and exculpatory statements would not be accepted in court if a defendant was not informed of their rights under the Fifth Amendment. The ''Miranda Rights'' warning (''You have the right to remain silent'', etc.) is now used across the US.

Interracial Marriage. State laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional, and were struck down. This case was cited as precedent in Obergefell v. Hodges.

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