Statehouse One-Acts: By the Time I Get to Arizona

the real Public Enem[ies] are serving in the legislature

As an erudite consumer of this missive, you may have heard the good news out of Arizona this week:

The Arizona House voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban!

… ya know, that Civil War-era law that the GOP-controlled state Supreme Court decided was still enforceable a couple of weeks ago?

• After not having enough GOP defectors (Rs have a two-seat majority in the chamber, just one crossed the aisle) to move the repeal forward just last week, three Republicans voted with House Democrats on Wednesday to repeal the abortion ban (final vote: 32-28).

GOP Speaker Ben Toma was Big Mad.

• “I don’t know what just happened here,” he’s reported to have said just after the vote. “I’m done.”

• Also just after the vote, Toma booted one of the defectors (Rep. Matt Gress) off of the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

You may recall from last week’s TWISA that two Senate Republicans already crossed the aisle to repeal the abortion ban (which is enough, since Republicans also have just a two-seat majority in thi…