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VOTE NO ON AZ SUPREME COURT JUSTICES BOLICK AND KING

WHY SHOULD WE VOTE NO TO RETAIN BOLICK AND KING?

Justices Kathryn King and Clint Bolick both ruled in favor of an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or victims of human trafficking. Bolick spent his life as a special interest lobbyist against funding for K-12 education and for segregation. Bolick and King are too extreme and only interested in working for big money special interests. Vote no against retaining these Justices to make sure they don’t get another term to continue endangering the lives of Arizonans.

hOW DID WE GET HERE?

  • Former Governor Doug Ducey Packed the Supreme Court with Far-Right judges by expanding the court from five justices to seven.
  • Ducey also packed the Commission on Appellate Court Appointments with his political loyalists so he could get his hand-picked far-right judges through this vetting commission.
  • U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade with the Dobbs decision.
  • Ducey’s hand-picked judges, Bolick and King rule to reinstate the 1864 ban, making one of the most draconian abortion bans in the country the law in Arizona.
  • To shield Justices Bolick and King from accountability, the Republican Legislature passes SCR 1044 (Proposition 137). This misguided ballot measure would eliminate judicial terms and end Arizona’s retention elections — essentially creating lifetime appointments. If passed, this retroactive proposition would also have the effect of undoing the vote of Arizonans in retention elections occurring in 2024.

WHAT ARE rETENTION eLECTIONS?

Arizona’s merit-based selection system with retention elections for judges is the nation’s gold standard, allowing voters to weigh in every four or six years to ensure fairness and stop justices from getting too much unchecked power. Now, a small group of extremist legislators have pushed Prop 137 to end judicial terms and give lifetime appointments to justices. This would end our right as voters to hold them accountable; it even acts retroactively, to cancel previous votes Arizonans have made. Vote NO on retention and NO on Proposition 137.

WHICH jUSTICES ARE DUE FOR rETENTION IN 2024?

Most notably, Justices Clint Bolick and Kathryn Hackett King of the Arizona Supreme Court are up for retention in 2024. A full list of judges can be found here.

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About our Process

We wanted make sure the school board candidates we endorsed shared our values as Arizona parents, grandparents, teachers, and community members. This means ensuring the candidates we support are willing to put the hard work to make our dreams for our kids a reality. And above all, we wanted to make sure anyone we supported would be committed to listening to parents and community members. 

Our candidate endorsement process started with sending a survey to each of the school board candidates. We wanted to hear from the candidates in their own words about their plans for the children of Arizona. The survey was composed of questions from parents and community members. Then, the parents and community members on our endorsement committee came together to review those survey responses and choose the candidates we felt best represented the needs and values of Arizona schools and students.