The genesis of the law is a ruling by the state's Supreme Court. How did the court get so conservative? Well, in 2016, the state's Republican governor, Doug Ducey, and legislature added two state Supreme Court seats and filled them with Republicans, creating a body with seven conservatives and zero liberals.
In the wake of Dobbs, that majority handed down a ruling putting Arizona's 1864 law - which had been nullified by Roe as unconstitutional, but was now constitutional again - into effect. Republicans are panicked. Fox News, in a reliable sign of distress, is pretending it isn't happening.
Meanwhile, Kari Lake, the defeated former candidate for governor now running for senator, is frantically distancing herself from the new law. The trouble is, as recently as 2022, she endorsed the law.
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