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As shocking as the recent ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court is … it was predictable, it was predicted:
[Katie] Hobbs’ campaign pointed us to a June 24 interview [Kari] Lake gave on "The Conservative Circus with James T. Harris," a radio show and podcast. At 3:48 into the interview, Lake reacted to the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe. (In the Arizona code, the 1901 law is numbered 13-3603.)
"I'm incredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that's already on the books," Lake said. "I believe it's ARS 13-3603, so it will prohibit abortion in Arizona except to save the life of a mother. And I think we're going to be paving the way and setting course for other states to follow."
www.politifact.com
And according the MAGA candidate for AZ Governor: “ we are going to have a great law that’s already on the books ...”
The “books” of yore, the “books” before statehood, the “books” before women had rights.
wapo
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While [William Claude] Jones lived in Arizona, he was elected to represent Tucson in the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislative Assembly. And then, when that legislature convened in 1864, he was elected speaker of the House.
And it was that legislature — the one Jones presided over in 1864, after he had already abandoned his first wife, and married a 12-year-old and was just weeks away from marrying a 15-year-old, though still a few years away from marrying a 14-year-old — it was that legislature that passed a law reading, [… text cited next.]
The law that Kari Lake and cohorts are running away from now ...
13-3603. Definition; punishment
A person who provides, supplies or administers to a pregnant woman, or procures such woman to take any medicine, drugs or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless it is necessary to save her life, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than two years nor more than five years.
www.azleg.gov
That 1864 Speaker of the AZ territory, William Claude Jones, is NOT the only one to blame, for the repression of yore, now brought back to the modern-day fore …
You see, these dusty old dudes from colonial Medieval England, have their key “authoritative” roles, in this outrageous rights-reversal saga too:
Sir Edward Coke (born February 1, 1552, Mileham, Norfolk, England—died September 3, 1634, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire) was a British jurist and politician whose defense of the supremacy of the common law against Stuart claims of royal prerogative had a profound influence on the development of English law and the English constitution.
www.britannica.com
Sir William Blackstone, (born July 10, 1723, London, Eng.—died Feb. 14, 1780, Wallingford, Oxfordshire), British jurist. Orphaned at age 12, he was educated at public school and later at Pembroke College, Oxford, at the expense of his uncle, a London surgeon. He was elected a fellow of All Souls College in 1744, and in 1746 he became a barrister. Having taken a doctorate in civil law in 1750, he abandoned his legal practice in 1753 to concentrate on teaching and legal work around Oxford. [...] His classic Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69) is the best-known description of the doctrines of English law; it became the basis of university legal education in England and North America. He also served as a member of Parliament (1761–70), as solicitor general to the queen (from 1763), and as judge of the Court of Common Pleas (1770–80).
www.britannica.com
Henry de Bracton (born, Devon?, England—died 1268, Exeter, Devon?) was a leading medieval English jurist and author of De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae (c. 1235; “On the Laws and Customs of England”), one of the oldest systematic treatises on the common law. While depending chiefly on English judicial decisions and the methods of pleading required by English judges, Bracton enlarged the common law with principles derived from both Roman (civil) law and canon law.
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By 1245 Bracton was an itinerant justice for King Henry III [...] Like most other English lawyers of his time, he was a priest; from 1264 he was chancellor of Exeter Cathedral.
www.britannica.com
Sir Matthew Hale (born Nov. 1, 1609, Alderley, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Dec. 25, 1676, Alderley) was one of the greatest scholars on the history of English common law, well known for his judicial impartiality during England’s Civil War (1642–51). He also played a major role in the law-reform proposals of the Convention Parliament and in promoting Charles II’s restoration.
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In 1660 Hale was appointed chief baron of the Exchequer, the court principally concerned with matters of crown revenue, and in the same year he was knighted.
www.britannica.com
These dusty old dudes from colonial Medieval England, were the “great common-law authorities” used in the Dobbs decision, to justify their over-turning of Roe (as penned by crusty old-guy Alito):
SCOTUS DOBBS Decision — Syllabus [pg 3]
Guided by the history and tradition that map the essential components of the Nation’s concept of ordered liberty, the [Supreme] Court finds the Fourteenth Amendment clearly does not protect the right to an abortion. [...]
[...] The Solicitor General repeats Roe’s claim that it is “doubtful . . . abortion was ever firmly established as a common-law crime even with respect to the destruction of a quick fetus,” 410 U. S., at 136, but the great common-law authorities -- Bracton, Coke, Hale, and Blackstone — all wrote that a post-quickening abortion was a crime.
Since when did these old dead guys get to decide how modern day women live out their lives?
Ever since MAGA rode into town, hinged to the rantings and promises of Donald Jackass Trump. Something they are vowing to repeat — Grover Cleveland style — unless we ALL stand up to stop them.
And Vote these crusty-old bums out of office. While we still have that right, to do so.
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Trump, in a statement, said Friday’s ruling and other recent court decisions “were only made possible because I delivered everything as promised, including nominating and getting three highly respected and strong Constitutionalists confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.”
“It was my great honor to do so!” Trump said.
www.cnbc.com — June 24, 2022
Donald Trump did this. Straight from the horse’s mouth.
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