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May 5Liked by Chris Geidner

Thank you for this. You are doing amazing work.

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Good news. i just do not understand how a "law" can be enacted from a period of time that AZ was not a state. "Territorial" law? i just don't understand.

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Yeah, it was re-enacted when Arizona became a state, and had been slightly amended over time, but was essentially the same as the original. If you go back and look at my original report on the history, I explain it more fully.

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May 2·edited May 2

When Arizona became a state, it probably incorporated its territorial law via a "reception" statute that said something like "all the territorial law is not abrogated" etc. A worthwhile perspective to consider on this question, if a little bonkers in my opinion: https://virginialawreview.org/articles/writ-erasure-fallacy/#:~:text=When%20judges%20or%20elected%20officials,delay%20its%20effective%20start%20date.

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You are quite an apologist.

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Arizona is the current pimple on the face of American turmoil re: abortion. The right wing is prepared to obstruct and “overwhelm with awe” to shove their policies through nationwide. We already know that the SCOTUS is corrupt and biased.

Since the 80’s, women in this country were lured into passive silence even as a 2-income family became a necessity. . . And women’s pay remained unequal. Well, women had better wake up—and they will. Because, who is going to take care of those children? Someone has to be home for the children, and women are not going to send their kids into war zone schools with armed teachers. Daycare is already stretched and it is not good quality. Libertarians won’t fund “infrastructure” —meaning public schools, day care, etc. Women will be at the mercy of corporate conglomerates who are already robbing this nation by not paying a fair share in taxes. Do people want to depend on distant billionaires to provide daycare at the work place? They’d rather fire staff and call themselves “financial conservatives” looking at “the bottom line.” Anyone buying into the “trickle down” theory had better read up on Libertarianism and the Shock Doctrine.

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Yep.

Every Republican state is a pimple on the face of America with all of their draconian and regressive laws. And it all started with Reagan's trickle down..... that never trickle down and only gave tax cuts to the wealthy, corporate america, industrialists.

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May 2·edited May 2

lol did you plagiarize the headline from the NYTimes, or did they steal your headline, or was this coincidental.

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I don’t look at what others are writing about a decision or action when I’m writing, so I hadn’t seen theirs and don’t know who even published first, but, regardless, I’m not sure it’s an especially unique headline.

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