After desperately throwing everything they can at 2024 to drag Biden over the finish line, the Democrats are banking on one play to save them.
The hitch is it will destroy some.
And a game-changing Supreme Court ruling just unleashed havoc on the 2024 election.
After the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and pushing abortion to the state level had Democrats doubling down on abortion for their rally calls for more abortions everywhere.
Now they’re quadrupling down.
It’s part of a strategy some say was deliberately designed to hoodwink the establishment-wing of the GOP into turning on core conservative principles, thereby once-again actively deflating the Republican base’s participation in Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts.
The key move in the strategy was scaring GOP leadership with Democrats’ narrative-reinforcing wins on multiple abortion-on-demand ballot initiatives during recent low-turnout elections.
With the Left able to turn out their rabid pro-abortion base during these elections, they knew establishment GOP power brokers would likely balk at putting resources into defeating them.
Now, Arizona, a purple state currently under Democrat control after a series of GOP missteps, has just turned into one of the biggest battlegrounds on this issue.
Just recently, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled 4-2 to uphold the state’s 1864 abortion law that virtually banned the practice in its entirety unless the mother’s life was threatened.
The case that was reviewed by the state Supreme Court revolved around the question of whether or not their recent 15-week abortion ban would supersede the old law or not.
“We consider whether the Arizona Legislature repealed or otherwise restricted [the old law] by enacting… the statute prescribing physicians from performing elective abortions after fifteen weeks’ gestation,” Justice John Lopez, who penned the majority opinion, wrote. “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.”
The decision of the court was that the 1864 abortion law was “enforceable.”
“Absent the federal constitutional abortion right, and because [the fifteen-week limit] does not independently authorize abortion, there is no provision in federal or state law prohibiting [the 1864 law’s] operation,” continued Justice Lopez. “Accordingly, [the 1864 law] is now enforceable.”
The decision was placed on a 14-day hold while the court returned the debate back to a lower court.
Arizona state Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, did not waste a second to announce that she would refuse to enforce the law.
“Let me be completely clear,” declared Mayes. “As long as I am Attorney General, no woman or doctor will be prosecuted under this draconian law in this state.”
Mayes followed her remarks by calling the decision by the state Supreme Court “unconscionable” and “an affront to freedom.”
The state’s governor, Katie Hobbs, also a Democrat, joined in on the outrage at a press conference, demanding that the state legislature “do the right thing” by passing abortion on-demand legislation.
“I am devastated by this decision,” added Governor Hobbs. “I know many Arizonans are as well.”
Democrats have made it clear that they plan to use the abortion issue as their bludgeon to rally supporters to a stronger turnout this November.
Meanwhile, the GOP elites look committed to repeating their same past tactical errors on the issue.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.