More abortion ballot measures are set to pass. Then state courts will have their say.
PHOENIX Arizonans appear poised to enshrine abortion protections in their state constitution. But judges, not voters, may have the last word.
The battleground state is one of several where right-leaning groups are backing conservative judges as they prepare to challenge in state supreme courts newly passed ballot measures protecting the procedure.
These historically overlooked judicial races in places like Arizona, Michigan, Montana, Ohio and Texas are attracting millions of dollars in donations this cycle from national and state groups on both sides of the abortion-rights fight, including Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, SBA Pro-Life America and National Right to Life.
In Arizona, progressive groups are holding events and knocking on doors to make GOP-appointed state Supreme Court Justices Clint Bolick and Kathryn King the first in state history to lose a retention vote by reminding voters the pair ruled this year to uphold an 1864 law criminalizing nearly all abortions.
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