AZ-SEN: Kari Lake Wants Arizona Sheriffs to Enforce 1864 Abortion Ban

[RandySF]

REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE Kari Lake can’t seem to make up her mind. Does she believe that Arizona’s Civil War-era total ban on abortion is a “great law” and that abortion is “the ultimate sin,” as she said on the campaign trail in 2022? Or does she think that every woman should have “choices” when they get pregnant, as she insisted in a recent campaign video?

In the wake of a state Supreme Court decision re-animating the 1864 law that prohibits abortion at any point in pregnancy for any reason except to save the life of the mother, Lake initially issued a statement declaring it “abundantly clear that the pre-statehood law is out of step with Arizonans” views on abortion. She called on state officials “to come up with an immediate common sense solution.”

Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) had already offered one. The state’s top law enforcement officer announced her office would not enforce the ban, which snaps back into effect in June. The law declares anyone who “provides, supplies, or administers” an abortion be punished with up to five years in jail.

But, last weekend, Lake suggested county sheriffs should enforce the 1864 abortion ban: “We can have that law, but it’s not going to be enforced with the people we have in office,” Lake reportedly told the crowd at a Mohave County Republican Party event. “The only people who can enforce that law are our sheriffs. And we need to start asking the sheriffs if they’re willing to enforce that. I don’t think they are.” The comments were first reported by The Copper Courier.





https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kari-lake-arizona-sheriffs-1864-abortion-ban-1235007918/

[CurtEastPoint]

1. JFC She and Marge have been drinking the same kool-aid/smoking the same shit. Idiots

[IronLionZion]

2. Yeah, choices of going to New Mexico or California

Meanwhile, I would hope this drives turnout to turn Arizona blue again this year.

[RandySF]

3. It's a big year for AZ.

- President
- Senate
- Two hot congressional seats
- State House and Senate
- Two state Supreme Court seats.
- Ballot initiative.

[Chainfire]

4. Why is what Kari Lake wants important?

[RandySF]

5. It contradicts her recent comments about the full ban.

[whopis01]

8. Because it can encourage people to vote for Ruben Gallego

the Democratic candidate running against her.

Getting the message:

Kari Lake wants the Sheriff's to enforce the 1864 abortion ban.
If you don't agree with that, vote for Gallego.

out there is extremely important.

[IronLionZion]

12. Because her flip flopping hypocrisy should help Ruben Gallego beat her in the election this year

[ecstatic]

6. What type of person lies about his or her intentions to get in office?

I get that politicians lie from time to time. But when you intentionally mislead the public so that unsuspecting, naive people can vote for you, that is disgusting.

She is a lying, low life creep. Pure evil.

[sanatanadharma]

7. When your rights depend upon armed county authoritarians, "rights' is just a word

Move to that other county where the sheriff is not pathologically dangerous.

Imagine no USA and no unity within States. War lords running towns and raiding across county borders. A world without nation-wide governments. Imagine oath-keeper and proud-boy gangs as the effective rulers in your neighborhood.

Or imagine a world without lakes.

[suegeo]

9. constitutional sheriffs movement

From the same article:

the state has become “ground zero” for the so-called “constitutional sheriffs movement,” whose adherents are already becoming accustomed to picking and choosing which laws they want to enforce.

The movement, which more than half of the state’s sheriffs have aligned themselves with, according to ACIR, is premised on “a radical ideology that the sheriff’s power within his or her county is superseded by no state or federal government entity but is guided by the sheriff’s interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Nullification, or refusing to enforce laws or mandates a sheriff deems unconstitutional, is a core part of the ideology.

Earlier this week, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association convened in Las Vegas for a training session that included talks by Trump associates Mike Flynn, Patrick Byrne and Mike Lindell.

DU link about the Las Vegas convention:
[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218874921|

[Owens]

10. Loser teleprompter reader Kari Lake says what?

She has no official title in the state of Arizona and no authority to order this to the sheriffs. If any sheriff follows her orders, they should be fired and lose their pension benefits.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

11. Who cares?

Why would anyone care what a retired news reader thinks about law enforcement?

[Diraven]

13. This is a stuck-up to "constitutional sheriffs"

The fringe right-wing legal ideology that self-righteous county sheriffs are the ultimate law of the land.