While running for governor, Kari Lake called abortion a sin and said she supported abortion bans and the 1864 law. At a campaign event at the University of Arizona, the U.S. Senate candidate said her mind was changed.
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Gov. Hobbs vetoed a slew of Republican bills, including ones that would have green lighted discrimination against transgender people and would have given public school teachers the OK to post the Ten Commandments in their classrooms.
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One GOP incumbent, Austin Smith, is accused of forging more than 100 signatures to qualify for the ballot.
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Arizona's projected budget deficit is about $400 million less than it was three months ago, thanks to an uptick in revenue.
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After 20 years, Arizona's long-neglected Yuma East Wetlands have made a remarkable comeback. Now federal officials want to add $5 million to the cleanup effort, report Arizona Mirror || bsky @azmirror.com and News from the States.
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AZ Republicans are mulling several abortion proposals to send to the ballot to compete with an abortion rights initiative. Legislative staff said it would be “easy” to carry out the strategy, but it’s unclear if GOP lawmakers can align behind any of them.
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The Republican Party of Arizona has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to accept Kari Lake’s tabulator case, claiming that lower courts across the country have set the bar too high for election challenge cases.
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A bill aimed at limiting the presence of pedestrians on medians and intersections was one of the five bills vetoed by Gov. Katie Hobbs earlier this week.
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The history of abortion regulations in Arizona azmirror.com/2024/04/12/the… via Arizona Mirror || bsky @azmirror.com

Republicans in the Arizona legislature are considering sending their own abortion measure to the ballot this November to compete with a citizen-led one that’s already in the works.
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Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed her first Republican election bills this year.
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thank you Arizona Mirror || bsky @azmirror.com for publishing my op-ed! young voters are refusing to fall for gop lawmakers backpedaling on their anti-abortion stances, and it will show at the ballot box this november

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Two recent state supreme court decisions upholding stringent abortion bans in Arizona and Florida have the potential to shake up the November elections.
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“The winners were announced and took their oaths of office more than 15 months ago. This case, one of the last embers still glowing, does not burn hot enough to warrant relief.”
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Commentary: Arizona Republicans in the state legislature sent a clear message Wednesday: They are ecstatic that the state Supreme Court outlawed virtually every abortion a day earlier.
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A day after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled to reinstate a near-total abortion ban from 1864, Republican legislators blocked multiple efforts to repeal the law, saying they need more time to consider the repercussions of doing so.
Via Gloria Rebecca Gomez
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AG Kris Mayes: AZ Supreme Court ruling to ban abortion ‘changes everything’ azmirror.com/2024/04/09/ag-… via Leah Britton

AZ elected officials and candidates react to the Supreme Court upholding a Civil War abortion ban azmirror.com/2024/04/09/ari… via Arizona Mirror || bsky @azmirror.com

Suddenly, some Arizona Republicans who proudly declared their anti-abortion bonafides when it was purely theoretical are staring down a reality that isn't so clear cut — and is politically disastrous.
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The Arizona Supreme Court ruled to make abortion largely illegal in the Grand Canyon State, reinstating a 160-year-old law that forbids all procedures except those to save a woman’s life.
Via Gloria Rebecca Gomez
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