Arizona GOP asks voters to nullify the judicial elections they'll be voting on
As civil rights groups zero in on Arizona courts as a key battleground, Republicans have placed a measure on the November ballot that would eliminate retention elections for judges, shielding conservatives’ control over the state supreme court by ending voters’ ability to remove justices.
The Arizona GOP put Proposition 137 on the ballot in June, amid widespread outrage over the supreme court’s April decision to uphold a Civil War-era abortion ban. Within weeks of that ruling, the progressive group Progress Arizona launched a campaign to unseat two of the justices who sided with the majority and are up for retention this fall, Clint Bolick and Kathryn King, providing an outlet for voters put off by the decision and the court’s ideological makeup.
Proposition 137, if it passes on Nov. 5, would nullify Bolick and King’s retention races that are taking place on the same day, as well as cancel future elections.
The proposal is “a power grab,” said Abigail Jackson, digital director of Progress Arizona. “This was responding to the energy and the anger we saw around that decision. The extremist legislators who pushed the proposal forward did it with the intention of protecting these judges.”
https://azmirror.com/2024/09/30/arizona-gop-asks-voters-to-nullify-the-judicial-elections-theyll-be-voting-on/
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