Wed Jul 5, 2023 – 1:37 pm EDT
PHOENIX (LifeSiteNews) – Arizona Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes declared Monday that she will not enforce pro-life laws in the Grand Canyon state, empowered to ignore abortion measures she disagrees with by left-wing Gov. Katie Hobbs.
During an interview with Capitol Media Services, Mayes said that she is taking all prosecutorial power over abortion-related cases away from Arizona’s 15 county attorneys and reserving it for herself, under the authority given her by an executive order Hobbs signed last week, which in turn cites a state law granting the state attorney general “supervisory powers” over county attorneys.
That statute does not explicitly allow for prosecutors to be barred from acting on entire categories of offenses, but Hobbs and Mayes have interpreted it as doing just that.
“This is essentially the governor and I centralizing the prosecution of state law where it belongs, in this matter, under the Attorney General’s Office,” Hayes said. “What I would say to that is, this is not something that the governor and I took lightly.”
“And it is also something that I think should be rarely utilized,” she added. “And I think this was
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