Group launches campaign to oust 2 Arizona justices over abortion ruling

[RandySF]

PHOENIX — A political action group is launching a campaign to deny new terms to two of the state Supreme Court justices who voted to allow the 1864 law on abortion to once again be enforced in Arizona.

The organization, called Progress Arizona, is also gearing up to kill a Republican legislator’s proposal to strip voters of the right to decide whether to retain judges in office or oust them.

Supreme Court Justices Clint Bolick and Kathryn King, both appointees of former Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, are on the statewide November ballot for retention. Neither would comment on the campaign against them.

If voters remove them, a rare outcome, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs would name their replacements.



https://tucson.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/arizona-election-2024-abortion-ruling-court-justices-new-terms-voters/article_3b8e4388-00ce-11ef-be03-9be75fe70808.html

[ColinC]

1. The democratization of Arizona is underway

:p

[Deminpenn]

2. This could happen like it did in PA

some years ago. The state legislature passed a midnight bill giving themselves a pay raise but coupling it with a raise for the state judiciary. Pennsylvanians were really, really, really angry about it and they way the raise was done. Voters took it out on Russell Nigro, who was a judge running for retention (usually a sleepy affair), by voting against his retention.

Up until then, the state legislature had to vote on giving itself a raise, but after the uproar, they passed a bill giving themselves automatic pay raises so they would no longer have to vote on them!

[NJCher]

4. Say what?

And that is still the law?!

[Deminpenn]

5. Yes, it is

and working as intended giving state legislators, who are part-time btw, nice raises.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. good luck!