Arizona Republicans who cheered fall of Roe backpedal to denounce 1864 abortion ban – live

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Republicans who embraced Roe v Wade reversal criticize Arizona ruling

Hours after the Arizona’s supreme court ruling, Republicans in the state took a surprising stance for a party that has historically championed abortion restrictions – they denounced the decision.

Some of the criticisms of the Tuesday ruling came from politicians who had previously supported the 1864 ban or cheered the end of Roe v Wade.

Kari Lake, a Republican and loyalist of Donald Trump running to represent Arizona in the Senate, previously called the ban a “great law”, according to PolitiFact.

David Schweikert, an Arizona congressman who is facing one of the most competitive House races in the country this November, said he does not support the ruling, but in 2022 said the fall of Roe “pleased” him.

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I do not support today’s ruling from the AZ Supreme Court. This issue should be decided by Arizonans, not legislated from the bench. I encourage the state legislature to address this issue immediately.

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I do not support today’s ruling from the AZ Supreme Court. This issue should be decided by Arizonans, not legislated from the bench. I encourage the state legislature to address this issue immediately.

— Rep. David Schweikert (@RepDavid) April 9, 2024

Juan Ciscomani, another Republican congressman for Arizona, said the ruling was “a disaster for women and providers” and that the law was “archaic”.

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My statement on the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling today. pic.twitter.com/A1Do8AjYlb

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The speaker of the Arizona house, Ben Toma, and the president of the state senate, Warren Petersen, who are both Republicans, also released a joint statement saying that they would be “listening to our constituents to determine the best course of action for the legislature”.

In contrast, on the day Roe fell, the Republican-controlled state senate released a statement declaring that the 1864 ban was in effect immediately. That statement unleashed confusion and chaos among abortion providers in Arizona, prompting them to stop offering the procedure out of an abundance of caution.

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Kamala Harris will visit Arizona as part of her nationwide reproductive freedoms tour, just days after the state supreme court upheld a near-total abortion ban.

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The vice-president will appear in Tucson on Friday, her office announced on Tuesday after the court decision, although her visit had reportedly already been scheduled.

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The White House said Harris would highlight “extremists” in the state who were pushing for abortion bans during her visit.

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Harris issued a statement following the Arizona ruling, laying the blame on Donald Trump for rolling “the clock to a time before women could vote”. Last month she said the former president had handpicked three members of the US supreme court “because he intended for them to overturn Roe … He intended for them to take your freedoms, and he brags about it.”

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The Arizona Supreme Court ruling allows an 1864 abortion ban to go into effect. There are no exceptions for rape and incest, and it threatens doctors and nurses with prison time.

It does not have to be this way. Congress must restore the protections of Roe. pic.twitter.com/JGdA7RNI2W

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) April 9, 2024

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Joe Biden welcomed Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, to the White House this morning as he hailed “unbreakable” US-Japanese ties and lauded the Japanese leader’s quick “courageous” opposition to Vladimir Putin’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine and for improving relations with South Korea

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“Ours is truly a global partnership. For that, Mr Prime Minister Kishida, I thank you,” Biden said.

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Now our two countries are building a stronger defense partnership and a strong Indo-Pacific than ever before.

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Kishida will address Congress on Thursday and join Biden and the president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, for a meeting expected to focus on Beijing’s South China Sea incursions.

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On the witness stand in October, Weisselberg, 76, was evasive, often saying he did not recall the real-estate valuations that were at the center of the trial. But a key moment of his testimony came when Weisselberg insisted he did not notice a discrepancy on Trump’s financial statements: that Trump’s triplex apartment was listed as being 30,000 sq ft when, in reality, it was closer to 11,000 sq ft.

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We will continue to provide what essential healthcare we can within the limitations of the law, and we hope that supporters will continue to support and that patients will still continue to feel safe in our care.

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We are not closing. Ever. That’s not a question. I have reassurances from the governor and the attorney general that they’re not going to prosecute, but I need to investigate that further.

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I do not support today’s ruling from the AZ Supreme Court. This issue should be decided by Arizonans, not legislated from the bench. I encourage the state legislature to address this issue immediately.

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Juan Ciscomani, another Republican congressman for Arizona, said the ruling was “a disaster for women and providers” and that the law was “archaic”.

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My statement on the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling today. pic.twitter.com/A1Do8AjYlb

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Arizona’s Democratic attorney general, Kris Mayes, vowed not to prosecute any doctors or women under the 1864 ban.

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Speaking in a news conference after the court’s decision was published, Mayes said:

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No woman or doctor will be prosecuted under this draconian law … as long as I am attorney general. Not by me, nor by any county attorney serving in our state. Not on my watch.

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Her office is looking to pursue options available to ensure the law is not implemented in the state, she added.

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In a statement, Mayes described the state supreme court decision as “unconscionable” and an “affront to freedom”, and said the court had “risked the health and lives of Arizonans”. She continued:

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Today’s decision to reimpose a law from a time when Arizona wasn’t a state, the Civil War was raging, and women couldn’t even vote will go down in history as a stain on our state.

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Good morning, US politics readers. The Arizona supreme court’s decision on Tuesday to let a 160-year-old abortion ban in the state go into effect pushed Republicans into a new political dilemma, coming as it did just a day after Donald Trump declared that abortion should be left to individual states.

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First passed when Arizona was still a territory, the ban only permits abortions to save a patient’s life and does not have exceptions for rape or incest. “This decision cannot stand,” said Matt Gress, a Republican state representative.

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I categorically reject rolling back the clock to a time when slavery was still legal and we could lock up women and doctors because of an abortion.

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“I oppose today’s ruling,” said Kari Lake, a Republican running to represent Arizona in the Senate and a Trump loyalist. Lake called on the state legislature to “come up with an immediate commonsense solution that Arizonans can support”. David Schweikert, the most vulnerable Republican in the state, also denounced the ruling and said the issue “should be decided by Arizonans, not legislated from the bench”.

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Republicans have struggled to find a way to talk about abortion since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, leading the GOP to stumble in the 2022 midterms and abortion rights supporters to win a string of ballot measures. Their latest response to the Arizona ruling may mark their fastest and strongest rebuke of abortion bans since Roe fell. Some of the criticisms of Tuesday’s ruling came from politicians who had previously supported the 1864 ban or cheered the end of Roe v Wade.

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10am ET. USAID administrator Samantha Power will testify before the foreign relations committee.

10am. Joe Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, will welcome the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and his wife, Yuko Kishida, on the South Lawn.

12.30pm. Biden and Kishida will hold a joint press conference in the Rose Garden.

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House speaker Mike Johnson is expected to meet with fellow Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene today, marking the first time the two have spoken since Greene filed a motion to vacate the speakership late last month.

Johnson and Greene were slated to speak last Friday, but that plan reportedly fell through. Asked about the upcoming meeting during a press conference alongside other House GOP leaders, Johnson described Greene as “a friend”, adding:

Marjorie and I don’t disagree, I don’t think, on any matter of philosophy. We’re both conservatives. But we do disagree sometimes on strategy and with regard to what we put on the floor and when and those things.

The meeting comes a day after Greene escalated her criticism against Johnson in a scathing memo to colleagues in which she accused him of a “complete and total surrender” to the Democrats’ agenda.

Martin Pengelly

The far-right Florida Republican Matt Gaetz forced Kevin McCarthy out as House speaker last year “because he slept with a 17-year-old” and wanted a congressional ethics investigation to end, McCarthy charged on Tuesday.

“I’ll give you the truth why I’m not speaker,” McCarthy said, at an event at Georgetown University in Washington.

Because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old, an ethics complaint that started before I ever became speaker. And that’s illegal and I’m not gonna get in the middle of it. Now, did he do it or not? I don’t know. But ethics was looking at it. There’s other people in jail because of it. And he wanted me to influence it.

Florida representative Matt Gaetz (left) reportedly pushed to remove McCarthy (right) in retaliation for the House ethics investigation. Composite: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The House ethics investigation of allegations against Gaetz opened in 2021, when Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, was speaker. The House investigation was paused when Gaetz was investigated by the Department of Justice for sex trafficking, over allegations that he paid for sex and had sex with an underage woman. In December 2022, Joel Greenberg, a former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to the investigation of Gaetz, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for offences including sex trafficking a minor.

In February 2023, prosecutors said they would not issue charges. The House ethics investigation then restarted. Gaetz denies wrongdoing.

Donald Trump is learning the hard way that there is no middle ground on abortion inside the Republican party, NBC News’ Chuck Todd writes.

The former president is hoping that he can separate himself from the most restrictive positions on the issue, he says.

Ironically, Trump’s controversial position shouldn’t, in theory, be controversial in the GOP. Trump is simply espousing what the party said it supported for decades before the supreme court’s 2022 Dobbs decision: Leave it to the states. But abortion conservatives want to go further with a federal limit. As is now fairly clear, simply returning the decision over reproductive rights to the states wasn’t really the goal of the anti-abortion movement pre-Dobbs. The goal was to roll back access to abortion, in whatever expedient way they could find.

The Arizona abortion ban is even dividing Republican families, according to Politico Playbook.

Clint Bolick is one of the four Arizona supreme court justices who supported reinstating the 1864 law.

His wife, Arizona state senator Shawnna Bolick, who faces a tough re-election this year, repudiated the effect of the court decision, posting to social media on Tuesday:

Considering today’s Arizona Supreme Court ruling to uphold Arizona’s 1864 territorial abortion ban, it is time for my legislative colleagues to find common ground of common sense: the first step is to repeal the territorial law.

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As a state legislator, I have worked on protecting all lives, especially the most vulnerable, from the earliest moments of life to protecting women's health by providing safe housing and a nurturing community for homeless pregnant women. Considering today’s Arizona Supreme Court… pic.twitter.com/9kV9rmvuFP

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As a state legislator, I have worked on protecting all lives, especially the most vulnerable, from the earliest moments of life to protecting women’s health by providing safe housing and a nurturing community for homeless pregnant women. Considering today’s Arizona Supreme Court… pic.twitter.com/9kV9rmvuFP

— Shawnna LM Bolick (@ShawnnaLMBolick) April 9, 2024

Kamala Harris to visit Arizona as part of reproductive freedoms tour

Kamala Harris will visit Arizona as part of her nationwide reproductive freedoms tour, just days after the state supreme court upheld a near-total abortion ban.

The vice-president will appear in Tucson on Friday, her office announced on Tuesday after the court decision, although her visit had reportedly already been scheduled.

The White House said Harris would highlight “extremists” in the state who were pushing for abortion bans during her visit.

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The Arizona Supreme Court ruling allows an 1864 abortion ban to go into effect. There are no exceptions for rape and incest, and it threatens doctors and nurses with prison time.

It does not have to be this way. Congress must restore the protections of Roe. pic.twitter.com/JGdA7RNI2W

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The Arizona Supreme Court ruling allows an 1864 abortion ban to go into effect. There are no exceptions for rape and incest, and it threatens doctors and nurses with prison time.

It does not have to be this way. Congress must restore the protections of Roe. pic.twitter.com/JGdA7RNI2W

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) April 9, 2024

Biden hails ‘unbreakable’ US-Japanese ties as he welcomes Kishida to White House

“Ours is truly a global partnership. For that, Mr Prime Minister Kishida, I thank you,” Biden said.

Now our two countries are building a stronger defense partnership and a strong Indo-Pacific than ever before.

Kishida will address Congress on Thursday and join Biden and the president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, for a meeting expected to focus on Beijing’s South China Sea incursions.

Japanese prime minister and his wife, Fumio Kishida and Yuko Kishida, and Joe Biden and Jill Biden wave from the Truman Balcony of the White House. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

Joe Biden and Fumio Kishida during an official White House state arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

The Arizona supreme court decision upended Donald Trump’s gambit on abortion, a day after the former president sought to neutralize the political issue by declining to support a national abortion ban.

Trump had hoped that his announcement on Monday would keep abortion rights mostly out of the conversation ahead of the November elections, but Tuesday’s ruling showed just how difficult it will be to do that, the Washington Post’s Dan Balz writes.

All abortion politics are national, not local. Abortion developments – new laws, new restrictions, new stories of women caught up in heart-wrenching and sometimes life-threatening decisions – are no longer confined to the geography where they take place. They are instantly part of the larger debate.

Trump is correct about the dangers to Republicans of continuing the debate about abortion rights, Balz says, but the former president has abandoned those whose interests he once vowed to serve.

There is no safe harbor for Trump and the Republicans at this point. The abortion issue is no less complex and no less difficult for many Americans than it was while Roe was in force. But politically the winds have shifted, and done so dramatically.

For more than a year, Donald Trump declined to say when in a pregnancy he would try to draw the line, even as Republican-led states have ushered in a wave of new restrictions and anti-abortion groups pressured him and other Republican presidential candidates to endorse a federal ban on the procedure.

In his statement on Monday, Trump did not say whether he would sign into law a national abortion ban if he were president and Congress passed a federal limit. Neither did he say how he, as a resident of Florida, would vote on a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights into that state’s constitution.

Democrats, who have made abortion a central issue of the election, said Trump supported laws in the more than two dozens states that have imposed outright bans or restrictions on the procedure since Roe v Wade was overturned.

Abortion-rights supporters and opponents protest in Washington DC on 20 January 2024. Photograph: Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images

On the campaign trail, Trump has been ambivalent on abortion. He routinely takes credit for appointing the supreme court justices who set the stage for the elimination of Roe v Wade, which he has called a “moral and unconstitutional atrocity”. He has also called himself the “most pro-life president in American history”.

But he has repeatedly dismissed as too extreme fellow Republicans who oppose exceptions to abortion restrictions in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the pregnant person is at risk. And he has said being too hardline on the issue cost Republicans at the polls in the 2022 midterms and could do so again when he challenges Biden in November’s presidential election.

The Arizona state supreme court decision came a day after Donald Trump declined to endorse a national ban on abortion, saying that it should be left up to individual states.

Trump’s stated position on Monday dashed hopes of anti-abortion groups, which want a federal ban, and drew the ire of Democrats, who blame Trump for outright bans and severe restrictions already in place across the south and midwest.

In a four-minute video post on Truth Social, Trump said it was “up to the states to do the right thing” while also touting his work to confirm the conservative supreme court justices who ultimately overturned Roe v Wade in 2022. “States will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both,” Trump said.

Whatever they decide must be the law of the land, or in this case the law of the state.

“Many states will be different, many will have a different number of weeks, some will be more conservative than others,” he continued.

At the end of the day this is all about the will of the people. You must follow your heart, or in many cases your religion or faith.

He added:

Do what’s right for your family, and do what’s right for yourself.

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg sentenced to five months for perjury

Allen Weisselberg on 17 November 2022 in New York City. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

‘We are not closing. Ever’: Arizona abortion providers react to ban

Carter Sherman

While the long-term impact of the decision on abortion access in Arizona is not yet clear, a number of providers said on Tuesday that they will stay open as long as they can.

We will continue to provide what essential healthcare we can within the limitations of the law, and we hope that supporters will continue to support and that patients will still continue to feel safe in our care.

Dr Gabrielle Goodrick, a longtime abortion provider in Phoenix, also told the Guardian that her clinic will continue offering abortions, at least through the 14-day window. Goodrick said.

We are not closing. Ever. That’s not a question. I have reassurances from the governor and the attorney general that they’re not going to prosecute, but I need to investigate that further.

Carter Sherman

Voters in Arizona may be able to weigh in on the issue in November: abortion rights supporters in the state have spent months gathering signatures for a ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution, and the Tuesday decision raises the stakes for their efforts significantly.

If it succeeds, the ballot measure would declare that people in Arizona have a “fundamental right to abortion” and that the state will not try to curb that right before a pregnancy reaches fetal viability, which is generally pegged to about 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Although ballot measures need to amass 383,923 signatures by July to get on the ballot, the organizers behind the Arizona measure announced last week that they have gathered more than 500,000 signatures, and plan to collect more.

Republicans who embraced Roe v Wade reversal criticize Arizona ruling

Hours after the Arizona’s supreme court ruling, Republicans in the state took a surprising stance for a party that has historically championed abortion restrictions – they denounced the decision.

Some of the criticisms of the Tuesday ruling came from politicians who had previously supported the 1864 ban or cheered the end of Roe v Wade.

Kari Lake, a Republican and loyalist of Donald Trump running to represent Arizona in the Senate, previously called the ban a “great law”, according to PolitiFact.

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I do not support today’s ruling from the AZ Supreme Court. This issue should be decided by Arizonans, not legislated from the bench. I encourage the state legislature to address this issue immediately.

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I do not support today’s ruling from the AZ Supreme Court. This issue should be decided by Arizonans, not legislated from the bench. I encourage the state legislature to address this issue immediately.

— Rep. David Schweikert (@RepDavid) April 9, 2024

Juan Ciscomani, another Republican congressman for Arizona, said the ruling was “a disaster for women and providers” and that the law was “archaic”.

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Arizona’s Democratic attorney general vows not to prosecute doctors or women under ban

Arizona’s Democratic attorney general, Kris Mayes, vowed not to prosecute any doctors or women under the 1864 ban.

Speaking in a news conference after the court’s decision was published, Mayes said:

No woman or doctor will be prosecuted under this draconian law … as long as I am attorney general. Not by me, nor by any county attorney serving in our state. Not on my watch.

Her office is looking to pursue options available to ensure the law is not implemented in the state, she added.

Today’s decision to reimpose a law from a time when Arizona wasn’t a state, the Civil War was raging, and women couldn’t even vote will go down in history as a stain on our state.

The Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, said Tuesday was a “dark day” for the state following the ruling and implored abortion rights supporters to make their voices heard in November.

Hobbs said the court decision was a sign that “the fight for our reproductive freedoms is far from over”. In a statement on Tuesday, she said:

I’ve personally experienced the anguish of losing a pregnancy and I know it’s outrageous to have the government tell you that the best decision for your health or future could now be considered a crime. I will not stop fighting until we have fully secured the right to reproductive healthcare in our state.

'A dark day': Arizona governor condemns ruling on near-total abortion ban – video — ‘A dark day’: Arizona governor condemns ruling on near-total abortion ban – video

The governor last year issued a sweeping executive order banning county attorneys from prosecuting women who seek abortions and doctors who perform them.

Speaking to CNN hours after the court ruling, Hobbs said she was confident that voters will have the opportunity to enshrine abortion rights in November and reverse the decision. She added:

This is a commonsense measure that is supported by the vast majority of Arizonans in terms of protecting access. And you know, certainly it’s going to motivate voters in November.

Republicans rush to distance themselves from 1864 abortion ban

I categorically reject rolling back the clock to a time when slavery was still legal and we could lock up women and doctors because of an abortion.

Here’s what else we’re watching:

10am ET. USAID administrator Samantha Power will testify before the foreign relations committee.
10am. Joe Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, will welcome the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and his wife, Yuko Kishida, on the South Lawn.
12.30pm. Biden and Kishida will hold a joint press conference in the Rose Garden.

The Guardian