Why Arizona Matters So Much

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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When Arizona’s Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law reinstating a near-total ban on abortion, it took most of the country by surprise. For plugged-in journalist Jim Small of AZ Mirror, this was the expected result of a deliberate effort by Republicans to arrive at precisely this outcome. Now that the great backpedal is underway, Small tells Audie how we got here and how Arizona politics will affect the elections in November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.9	Donald Trump's abortion solution was to let the states decide.
0:35.8	And the very next day, the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated
0:39.1	an 1864 law making abortion a felony in almost all cases. When Democrats launched an effort to
0:45.6	reinstate abortion rights, Republicans shut it down via procedural means. So here's what that sounded
0:51.3	like in the statehouse. All in favor of that motion, vote aye?
0:54.7	Aye.
0:55.7	All opposed vote, no, eyes have it, so over.
1:03.1	I'm Audie Cornish, and this is the assignment.
1:05.8	And here with me is Jim Small.
1:07.4	He's an Arizona native who's worked as a journalist there for some 20 years.
1:11.5	And he's now editor-in-chief at the Arizona Mirror, which is a nonprofit news site. Jim, welcome to the assignment.
1:18.0	Thank you so much for having me on.
1:19.7	All right. So people have been hearing about this in the news for the last couple of days.
1:23.8	And we just want to take a step back and remind folks how we actually got here.
1:29.6	Arizona had a Republican governor and also its legislature. And what were they trying to do
1:38.5	when they kind of created the conditions for this to happen? Yeah. So in 2022, in the months leading up to the Dobbs decision, Arizona legislators took up a
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