By any fair measure, the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion rights was a policy and political bombshell. Republican-appointed justices ruled that a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban — first adopted before Arizona was even a state — is enforceable. As we discussed soon after, once Republican-appointed justices on the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it was common to hear reproductive rights advocates talk about rolling back the clock a half-century. The Arizona ruling rolls...
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Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake (R) has quickly made clear she opposes a court decision to effectively ban abortion in the state — even though she also supports Donald Trump's position that states should decide the issue. Lake made the remarks Tuesday after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the state must follow a 123-year-old law that bans nearly all abortions, except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant person. "I speak to more Arizonans than anyone and it is abundantly...
The Republican former TV anchor is trying to soften her election-denying image against the Democratic congressman Ruben Gallego in one of the year’s most closely watched racesOn a recent Tuesday morning, at a retirement community on the western edge of Phoenix’s sprawling desert metropolis, Kari Lake beamed at the graying crowd and introduced her guest, the Montana senator Steve Daines, the Republican charged with winning back the party’s Senate majority in Washington.His presence sent the...
Far-right US Senate candidate joins Republicans who have decried state supreme court ruling but who blocked appeal effortKari Lake, the far-right US Senate candidate and Donald Trump ally, denounced Arizona’s abortion ban on Thursday, arguing that the strict legislation she previously praised does not have the support of the state’s residents.“This total ban on abortion the Arizona supreme court just ruled on is out of line with where the people of this state are,” she said in a video on...
Decision putting near-total abortion ban into place sends GOP running from the spotlight
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was banned from a second Native American reservation in her own state this week after alleging that drug cartels were using Indigenous land to facilitate crime.Noem, a Republican floated as a potential vice presidential running mate for ex-President Donald Trump in November, was criticized by tribal leaders after saying at a town hall meeting in March that some Native American leaders were "personally benefitting" from Mexican cartels operating in their...
ABC News host George Stephanopoulos clashed with GOP New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu over his support for Donald Trump on Sunday in a heated debate over the Republican governor's past condemnation of the former president. Sununu, who endorsed Haley in the GOP primary until she dropped out, said in March he would endorse Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, in the presidential election. Stephanopoulos asked if his support for Trump would continue if he's convicted in the hush money case. "This...
TUCSON, Ariz. — Republican Senate hopeful Kari Lake took criticism from both flanks of the abortion debate during a visit to the University of Arizona Thursday evening, as she and other candidates navigate the fallout from this week’s state Supreme Court decision upholding the state’s Civil War-era abortion ban. Lake’s flip-flop on the law — which she called a “great law” in 2022 but now opposes and is pushing fellow Republicans to repeal — illustrates the tricky political position she and other...
Who runs the House? Donald Trump runs the House It’s clear who’s really in charge. Instead of fixing Arizona abortion law, Republicans take a vacation Sure, they say they want to fix it but Trump's abortion gambit is going off the rails He said abortion is now “largely taken out of play” in this election. Not so much. Cartoon: Tom the Dancing Bug presents Trump's Illustrated Bible The perfect gift from someone who thinks he’s God’s gift. Kari Lake almost worked for group supporting...
Former President Donald Trump and his allies have ramped up pressure for Nebraska lawmakers to change the state’s unique system of dividing electoral college votes. CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reports.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) took aim at GOP lawmakers who criticized a court ruling Tuesday that held up an 1864 law that made performing an abortion a felony in the state. Hobbs said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that the decision was “very harmful” for the state, noting that Arizonians are “reeling”