No political actors may hold more power over this year’s election outcome right now than those in the courts.
Now, a pre-election day move by conservative justices has unleashed havoc.
And the landmark move by these Justices sent Joe Biden and the Democrats off the rails.
Democrats are desperate to use the court system to help them maintain power and control over working class Americans.
It might not work out the way they’d hoped after this game-changing ruling.
The Arizona Supreme Court recently issued a major ruling that will have far-reaching ramifications in the 2024 election.
In a game-changing move, the state Supreme Court ruled that a state law passed in 1864 which banned abortion in all cases except when the mother’s life is in danger should take precedence over the 15-week abortion ban former Arizona Governor Doug Ducy signed into law in 2022.
“We consider whether the Arizona Legislature repealed or otherwise restricted [the old law] by enacting. . . the statute proscribing physicians from performing elective abortions after fifteen weeks’ gestation,” Justice John Lopez wrote for the majority opinion. “This case involves statutory interpretation — it does not rest on the justices’ morals or public policy views regarding abortion; nor does it rest on [the old law’s] constitutionality, which is not before us.”
According to Justice Lopez, because the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the idea of a “federal right” to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade, and Arizona’s 2022 law didn’t “authorize” abortion, there is nothing preventing the 1864 law from being in effect.
“Absent the federal constitutional abortion right, and because [Arizona’s 2022 15-week abortion ban] does not independently authorize abortion, there is no provision in federal or state law prohibiting [the 1864 law’s] operation,” Lopez added. “Accordingly, [the 1864 law] is now enforceable.”
The Arizona Supreme Court’s majority ultimately stopped short of ultimately deciding on the abortion issue, as they wrote that it’s a matter that should be left up to the people to decide.
“The abortion issue implicates morality and public policy concerns, and invariably inspires spirited debate and engenders passionate disagreements among citizens,” the Arizona Supreme Court added. “A policy matter of this gravity must ultimately be resolved by our citizens through the legislature or the initiative process. Today, we decline to make this weighty policy decision because such judgments are reserved for our citizens. Instead, we merely follow our limited constitutional role and duty to interpret the law as written.”
In an interview with CNN, former President Barack Obama’s senior advisor and chief campaign strategist David Axelrod claimed that such a ruling would only help Democrats in battleground states, like Arizona.
“So I think what this does is it puts a battleground state more in the leaning D column and then the leaning R column because I think there’s going to be a massive turnout in November for a constitutional amendment in the state of Arizona because the voters of Arizona now have a demonstration of the fragility of abortion rights in the post Dobbs era,” Axelrod claimed. “I think this is an earthquake, those electoral votes in Arizona could be the ones that tip this election.”
With polls showing Trump leading Biden in at least six of the top seven battleground states many believe will decide the 2024 election – albeit, by relatively small margins – the least little thing could send the Presidential race in a totally different direction.
But if Democrats’ only hope at winning the 2024 Presidential election is abortion, they best not count their chickens before the eggs hatch.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.