“Conservative Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick has a warning for America”

From the AZCentral:

Clint Bolick is worried.

The Arizona Supreme Court justice and rock star of the political right
stood before a crowd of lawyers recently and rebuked “deeply disturbing”
attacks on the American justice system coming from senior Trump
administration officials.”It’s almost dystopian. And when I think of people wrapping themselves in the Constitution while they are simultaneously doing violence to it … it
is really scary stuff,” Bolick told those gathered at the May event
hosted by Society for the Rule of Law, a right-of-center legal
organization.

Though he didn’t name names, the speech showed an extraordinary level of openness for a Supreme Court justice, as justices typically refrain from commenting on public affairs to avoid perceptions of bias.

The fact the remarks came from Bolick, “a leader in center-of-right litigation and legal thinking,” was “tremendously important,” said Gregg Nunziata, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law….

Bolick emphasized multiple threats in his speech, including Vice President JD Vance flippantly referring to “due process” on social media, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller threatening to suspend habeas corpus if judges didn’t “do the right thing.” Habeas corpus protects against unlawful imprisonment.

He also chastised local threats to judicial independence, including a fierce campaign from the political left against his retention election in 2024, which focused on his decision to uphold an 1864 near-total abortion ban in Arizona.

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