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It will be on the ballot.
Morning Digest: Arizona GOP seeks to end judicial elections after unpopular abortion ruling
Arizona's Republican-run legislature has approved a ballot measure that would eliminate regular judicial elections, a move designed to insulate two conservative incumbents who recently upheld a near-total ban on abortion from voters this fall.
Those justices, Kathryn King and Clint Bolick, will face retention elections in November, when voters will have the chance to decide whether they merit new six-year terms with a simple yes-or-no vote. But if the GOP's new amendment were to pass that same day, the results of those judicial elections would be retroactively wiped from the books, even if King and Bolick fail to earn majority support.
[If the amendment doesn't pass, and the justices are rejected, Democrat Katie Hobbs would name the replacements to the court.]
Asking the voters to remove their power to remove judges....that should go over real well.
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