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Arizona

question everything

(47,488 posts) Tue Apr 9, 2024, 07:10 PM Apr 9

Do the AZ Supreme Court justices serve for life or can they be voted out?

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Do the AZ Supreme Court justices serve for life or can they be voted out? (Original Post) question everything Apr 9 OP

They are subject to retention vote AZSkiffyGeek Apr 9 #1

Thanks. I hope that there are already candidates to challenge them. question everything Apr 9 #2

They're replacements would be selected by the governor AZSkiffyGeek Apr 9 #3

Maybe they thought the legislature needed to repeal. Frasier Balzov Apr 9 #4

AZSkiffyGeek

(11,031 posts)

1. They are subject to retention vote

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 07:17 PM

Apr 9

2 are up this year and they both voted for the ban.

question everything

(47,488 posts)

2. Thanks. I hope that there are already candidates to challenge them.

Reply to AZSkiffyGeek (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 07:19 PM

Apr 9

AZSkiffyGeek

(11,031 posts)

3. They're replacements would be selected by the governor

Reply to question everything (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 07:27 PM

Apr 9

Frasier Balzov

(2,655 posts)

4. Maybe they thought the legislature needed to repeal.

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 08:02 PM

Apr 9

One effect of Roe and Casey was that these progressive decisions allowed lawmakers to escape the task of actually updating their statutes, at least as far as reproductive choice and patient health are concerned.

Legislators were able to avoid whatever political consequences they might otherwise have faced for doing the actual job of modernizing their code books wherever the topic was historically referenced.

Dobbs now requires lawmakers to face a comeuppance of sorts for their previous lives of benign neglect.

Alito et al. probably think this is a "healthy" development.

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