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☆ Arizona Supreme Court rules state must revert to century-old law banning nearly all abortions
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Cindy Von Quednow | Lauren Mascarenhas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Arizona’s near-total abortion ban will be one of the strictest in the nation, placing it alongside Texas, Alabama and Mississippi, where there are abortion bans in place with almost no exceptions. And now we’re talking about whether or not we should put that doctor in jail.”Reproductive rights advocates have condemned the ruling and pledged to fight for abortion rights. In a notice Monday, the Arizona court had indicated it would file an opinion in Planned Parenthood of Arizona vs. Mayes/Hazelrigg Tuesday. Doug Ducey stated the 2022 law would not override the older law. The state Supreme Court was asked for clarity following months of uncertainty and legal wrangling over which law should apply in the state.

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PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake, a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona who says she lost a 2022 race for governor because of fraud, is declining to defend against a defamation lawsuit filed by a top election official. The court had already rejected her motion to dismiss the case, and the Arizona Supreme Court declined to take her appeal. While declining to defend her statements in court, Lake maintains she was truthful and says she wants to avoid spending time and money on a protracted legal process. Richer's lawsuit, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, names Lake, her husband, her campaign and her political fundraising group as defendants. It details nearly three dozen times she made the claims publicly on social media or at rallies and news conferences.

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Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to a lower court to consider the doctors’ request for a court order blocking the law. A court blocked enforcement of the 1864 law shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. But after the Supreme Court overturned the decision, then-Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich succeeded in getting a state judge in Tucson to lift that court order. This past summer, abortion rights advocates began a push to ask Arizona voters to create a constitutional right to abortion. The proposed constitutional amendment would guarantee abortion rights until a fetus could survive outside the womb, typically around 24 weeks of pregnancy.

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I really do,” Lake told an adoring crowd of Michigan Republicans gathering last month on Mackinac Island. Lake will launch a U.S. Senate campaign for an Arizona seat in a splashy Scottsdale rally on Tuesday, having never conceded that she lost last year's race for Arizona governor. She is trying out new messages and courting the support of national Republicans she’s insulted in the past. That worries some Republicans who fear she will cost them a race that could decide control of the Senate. But Lake became a national figure on the far right with her television appearances and her defense of Trump's election falsehoods.

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The former TV anchor has already lost two trials that challenged her loss to Democratic Gov. Initially, Lake’s challenge focused on problems with ballot printers at some polling places in Maricopa County. They also alleged the county ultimately accepted thousands of ballots that had been rejected earlier by workers for having mismatched signatures. They also said disclosing early ballot envelopes wouldn’t promote the best interest of the state, and would invite voter fraud and put the public at risk of identity theft. Lake’s lawyer has argued that the ballot envelopes aren’t entitled to privacy protections simply because they contain signatures and that the denial of records prevents Lake from monitoring election activity.

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☆ Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentence for Arizona Defendant
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Jess Bravin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Supreme Court ruled that Arizona courts made mistakes in the case of a man convicted in the shooting death of a police officer. WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court set aside an Arizona inmate’s death sentence Wednesday, finding by 5-4 that state courts violated his constitutional rights by denying him and his lawyers the chance to inform jurors that he would receive life imprisonment without parole were they to vote against his execution. For nearly three decades, Supreme Court precedent has required trial courts to afford capital defendants the opportunity to tell jurors when a life sentence included no chance of parole. But the Arizona Supreme Court, citing procedural reasons, said John Montenegro Cruz wasn’t entitled to make those points and denied appeals of his death sentence.

Dec 21 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Republican Kari Lake, who lost her bid last month to become Arizona’s governor, were in court Wednesday arguing that the election was invalid and should be overturned. Lake lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs by about 17,000 votes in the Nov. 8 election. A central tenet of her gubernatorial campaign was endorsing former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Marc Elias, an election attorney whose firm is representing Hobbs, said on Twitter that Lake had little chance of prevailing under the law. “Proving intentional wrongdoing and that it affected the outcome of the election will be impossible for Lake,” Elias wrote.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined over the objection of two justices to decide whether defendants facing serious criminal charges are legally entitled to a 12-person jury, rejecting an appeal from an Arizona man convicted of fraud by a jury of just eight people. The decision not to take up the appeal brought by defendant Ramin Khorrami means states can continue to use of six- or eight-person juries for felony offenses. Florida, the third most populous state, uses six-person juries for all non-death penalty-eligible criminal cases. A 12-person jury is a common feature in dramatic depictions of criminal trials, such as the 1957 classic film "12 Angry Men." In February of this year, the Arizona Supreme Court declined to hear Khorrami’s case.

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