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The constitution was amended by the constitutional convention removing the recalling of judges and resubmitted, upon which President Taft approved Arizona's statehood as the 48th state on February 14, 1912. [1] Fairly quickly after Arizona became a state, the state legislature approved a constitutional amendment which restored the ability to ...
The Arizona municipal courts, also known as city courts or magistrate courts, are nonrecord courts of limited jurisdiction that have criminal jurisdiction over misdemeanor crimes and petty offenses committed in their city or town and share jurisdiction with justice courts over violations of state law committed within their city or town limits ...
If approved, the ballot measure would add the following text to Article 2, Section 8.1, to the Arizona Constitution: [11] 8.1. Fundamental right to abortion; definitions A. Every individual has a fundamental right to abortion, and the state shall not enact, adopt, or enforce any law, regulation, policy, or practice that does any of the ...
NBC News projects the constitutional amendment has won enough votes to pass. It’s one of 10 pro-abortion rights measures on the ballot across the country Tuesday.
Abortion will be protected in Arizona until the point of fetal viability after voters approved a ballot amendment codifying those protections into the state constitution, according to a projection ...
In May, the Arizona Senate voted to repeal the state’s 160-year-old near-total abortion ban, after the state Supreme Court revived the law and thrust reproductive rights into the political ...
A ballot proposition in the state of Arizona refers to any legislation brought before the voters of the state for approval.. In common usage, the term generally applies to the method of amending either the state constitution or statutes through popular initiative, although it may also refer to any legislation referred to the public by the state legislature.
Abortion in Arizona is legal up the point of fetal viability as a result of Arizona Proposition 139 being put into the Arizona state constitution. [1] [2] As a territory, Arizona banned abortion in 1864, and although the law became unenforceable after the 1973 Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision, it remained in effect.