Campaigns battle over the fate of 2 AZ Supreme Court justices who ushered in the 1864 abortion ban
Judicial retention elections usually aren’t the sexiest items on the ballot, but this year two campaigns are fighting to persuade voters to either retain or throw out two Arizona Supreme Court justices.
At the same time, voters will be considering a constitutional amendment that would essentially give judges lifetime appointments.
Justices Clink Bolick and Kathryn King are up this year for a routine retention vote that the judges on the high court face every six years. And if voters in November favor Proposition 137, dubbed “The Judicial Accountability Act of 2024,” it could be their last retention election ever.
Voters have never kicked an Arizona Supreme Court justice off the bench in the 50 years since the state implemented judicial retention elections, but historically those elections didn’t get much attention and were questions that some voters just skipped.
https://azmirror.com/2024/09/18/campaigns-battle-over-the-fate-of-2-az-supreme-court-justices-who-ushered-in-the-1864-abortion-ban/