From The Guardian (UK) -
Arizona Republicans block abortion-ban repeal after denouncing court ruling
Republicans in Arizona halted an effort by Democrats on Wednesday to repeal an 1864 law banning almost all abortions, which the state supreme court this week ruled could go into effect.
The move came after Republican lawmakers in the state had denounced the court’s decision, including some who previously expressed support for the law. Donald Trump and other high-profile Republicans, such as the Senate candidate Kari Lake, had also declared their opposition to the ruling with Lake urging lawmakers to “come up with an immediate commonsense solution that Arizonans can support”.
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Some Republicans in the state had, surprisingly, come out against the court’s decision. “This decision cannot stand,” Matt Gress, a Republican state representative, said. “I categorically reject rolling back the clock to a time when slavery was still legal and we could lock up women and doctors because of an abortion.”
Gress had tried to bring forth a bill to repeal the ban but then voted with other Republicans to move to recess.
The move to adjourn was MIS005.
It passed by one vote
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That vote -
I don't think that there was any real doubt that the adjournment motion was going to pass. Nope, the only real question about this was whether the grifters lobbyists at the Center for Arizona Policy (CAP) were busy tugging on the leash that runs between them and the Rs in the AZ legislature or if they spent their time rubbing their hands together gleefully.
My guess is that it wasn't the leash, and I have two reasons for believing that:
1. The AZ legislature doesn't need any prompting to come to CAP's heel.
2. CAP does seem rather gleeful.
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