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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

Time warp: Court subjects Arizona women to Civil War-era abortion law

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

MS NOW, Alex Wagner

News, Society & Culture

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Plus, 'Denied again': Trump effort to derail New York criminal trial fails twice in 24 hours

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0:00.0

Are you a man above the age of 18?

0:03.4

Do you live in Arizona?

0:04.9

Have you joined your local criminal hunting posse?

0:08.6

Because it is actually required by law that men in Arizona

0:12.0

join a local criminal hunting posse.

0:14.2

I'm quoting straight from the compiled laws of the territory of Arizona from 1864 through

0:19.0

1871.

0:20.8

Every male person above 18 years of age who shall neglect or refuse to join the

0:26.1

posse comitatas, that would be citizens law enforcement committees, by

0:31.0

neglecting or refusing to aid and assist in taking or arresting any

0:34.8

person shall be fined in any sum not less than $50 nor more than $1,000.

0:41.5

So join that posse comitadas or fork over maybe as much as a thousand dollars.

0:47.0

Here's another law from that same compendium on the sale of liquor to indigenous people.

0:55.2

Any person who has been guilty of selling or giving spiritous liquor

0:59.3

to any Indian within this territory

1:01.4

shall be fined for the first offense $25.

1:05.0

Totally racist, totally outdated, but again that is Arizona law circuit 1864

1:12.0

and here's another one on animal Theft.

1:15.0

Theft. Every person who shall brand or deface the mark or brand of any horse,

1:20.0

Mare, Jack, General, Mule, sheep, hog, shoat or pig that is not his or her own property, shall

1:27.2

be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison for a

1:35.0

territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor more than five years. Now if you were wondering a chote is like a pre-teen pig

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