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Diabierna 15 Juli 2022

Arrest sought of Colorado clerk in voting tampering case

week on allegations that she Peters is charged with three
Rubinstein said he made the was part of the scheme. counts of attempting to in-
discovery after Peters sent fluence a public servant,
a letter notarized in Las Ve- Rubinstein had previously criminal impersonation, two
gas on Tuesday to Colorado said he would not object to counts of conspiracy to com-
Secretary of State Jena Gris- Peters traveling outside of mit criminal impersonation,
wold, according to court Colorado during her cam- one count of identity theft,
documents. The letter was paign for secretary of state. first-degree official miscon-
released by the secretary of But the election was held duct, violation of duty and
state’s office and requested a June 28 and the the court failing to comply with the
recount in her failed prima- documents said the letter was secretary of state.
ry election bid for the GOP notarized on July 12. Judge
nomination in the state sec- Matthew Barrett ordered Pe- She has dismissed the charges
retary of state’s race. ters on Monday not to travel filed against her as politically
until the post-election ap- motivated and has not yet en-
Peters has echoed former proval process for her travel tered a plea.
(AP) — An arrest war- President Donald Trump’s was resolved.
rant was issued Thursday A judge revoked bond for false theories about the 2020 Mesa County, in western
for an indicted Colorado Mesa County Clerk Tina Pe- election. She and her chief Peters did not immediately Colorado, is largely rural and
clerk who has become ters, who is accused of tam- deputy are being prosecuted return a telephone call or text heavily Republican. Trump
a hero to election con- pering with voting equip- for allegedly allowing a copy seeking comment, and a tele- won it in the 2020 presiden-
spiracy theorists after she ment, after District Attor- of a hard drive to be made phone message left with Pe- tial election with nearly 63%
allegedly traveled out of ney Dan Rubinstein said in during an update of election ters’ attorney, Harvey Stein- of the vote. President Joe
state despite a court order the documents that he had equipment in May 2021. A berg, was not immediately Biden won Colorado overall
not to do so, according to learned she traveled to Ne- former employee in her of- returned. with 55.4% of the state’s vote.
court documents. vada for a conference. fice was also arrested this

Arizona attorney general asks court to unblock abortion ban

(AP) — Arizona’s Repub- stopped abortions after the laws” designed to ban abor- are peculiarly within the field after 15 weeks. The intent
lican attorney general on Supreme Court’s June 24 tion if Roe fell or opposing occupied by the Legislature was to ensure it would be
Wednesday asked a court opinion, saying it was too so-called “zombie laws” like and any problem concerning enforceable if Roe v. Wade
to lift an injunction block- risky to move ahead with the Arizona’s that predate Roe. abortion should be solved by were overturned, according
ing the enforcement of a old ban still on the books and that body,” the appeals court to Wednesday’s court filing.
law that bans all abortions with a 2021 law that grants all Arizona also has a 15-week ruling said. “We can only reit-
except when the life of the rights to pre-born children ban that Republican Gov. erate that we are not a super- The president and CEO of
mother is at risk. also in play. Doug Ducey signed into law legislature.” Planned Parenthood Ari-
in March, and he has insisted zona, Brittany Fonteno, said
The filing from Attorney A federal judge on Monday that it takes precedence over Less than three weeks later, Brnovich’s action shows he
General Mark Brnovich asks blocked that law after abor- the total ban Brnovich wants the U.S. Supreme Court is “out of touch” with the
a court in Tucson to lift an tion rights groups successful- to enforce. But the 15-week ruled in Roe, and the ap- majority of Arizonans who
order in place since short- ly argued that it was uncon- ban law specifically said it did peals court reversed its earlier support abortion rights. She
ly after the U.S. Supreme stitutionally vague. The judge not overturn the 1901 law. judgment. The law was then said the group plans to fight
Court ruled in 1973′s Roe v. agreed that it was unclear permanently blocked. his request in court. Fonteno
Wade case that abortions are a what criminal laws abortion In the attorney general’s noted that the Legislature
constitutional right. providers may be breaking if court filing, assistant Attor- Roysden noted that the “Leg- over the past 50 years has
they perform otherwise-legal ney General Beau Roysden islature, however, did not passed numerous laws allow-
The newly conservative high abortions. III laid out the history of the acquiesce in the declaration ing doctors to perform abor-
court overturned that deci- injunction that blocked the that these laws were uncon- tions.
sion last month, leaving it Abortion rights groups old abortion law. stitutional but rather took
again to the states to decide slammed Brnovich for mov- affirmative steps to ensure “As a result, we believe that
how to regulate abortions. ing to again allow enforce- That case started in 1971, two their continuing validity in providers should still be
Arizona’s near-total ban on ment of the pre-statehood years before Roe was handed the event that Roe was over- able to provide this essential
abortions has been on the ban down, when the Tucson affil- ruled.” health care to the thousands
books since at least 1901, and iate of Planned Parenthood, of Arizonans who need it
Brnovich said with Roe over- “It is outrageous that Arizo- several doctors and a woman The Legislature reenacted annually,” Fonteno said in a
turned it should now be en- na’s Attorney General is try- who wanted an abortion sued the pre-statehood ban in statement.
forceable. ing to revive this zombie law to overturn the law. A trial 1977, and this year said it was
that has long been blocked,” judge in Pima County Su- still on the books when they A date to hear Brnovich’s re-
“We believe this is the best Gail Deady, an attorney at perior Court ruled the next passed the ban on abortions quest has not yet been set.
and most accurate state of the the Center for Reproductive year that a fetus does not have
law,” Brnovich said in a state- Rights, said in a statement. constitutionally protected
ment. “We know this is an “Arizonans’ personal health rights and that the law ban-
important issue to so many decisions, lives, and futures ning abortion also violated
Arizonans, and our hope is should not be dictated by a the doctors’ rights to practice
that the court will provide century-old, draconian law.” medicine as they saw fit.
clarity and uniformity for our
state.” Deady said that the high The Arizona Court of Ap-
court’s decision to overturn peals overturned that ruling,
Brnovich, who is running for Roe has caused “absolute rejecting wholesale the lower
U.S. Senate, announced late chaos” in Arizona and other court’s reasoning that the
last month that the old abor- states with Republican Leg- abortion ban was unconstitu-
tion ban was enforceable and islatures that have previously tional and saying it could be
that he would seek to have unenforceable abortion re- enforced.
the injunction lifted. strictions on the books. Nu-
merous court battles are un- “Appellees’ complaints
Providers across the state derway to try to block “trigger against the abortion statutes