Brnovich asks Ducey to call special session
With his legal challenges to vaccine and mask mandates rejected by a federal judge, Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Brnovich now wants Gov. Doug Ducey to order lawmakers back to the Capitol in hopes of a legislative fix.
The attorney general wants a special legislative session to restore four statutes restricting the powers of local governments, public schools and universities to mandate that employees, staff and students be vaccinated against Covid or wear face coverings. In a letter to the governor, he called the situation “most pressing,” saying he has received complaints in particular from government workers who face the prospect of either submitting to a vaccine or being fired.
All those provisions had been approved earlier this year. But all were voided by a trial judge because they were packed into various unrelated “budget reconciliation” bills, a ruling ratified by the Arizona Supreme Court.
Brnovich, engaged in what could be a tight race in his bid to be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, also is pressuring Ducey to use what the attorney general contends are his powers to block what the schools and local governments are doing, even if the legislature cannot or will not.
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