Abortion case could cost judges their jobs for ruling correctly

The uproar over the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision this past April to uphold the state’s 1864 abortion law has laid bare a profound misunderstanding of the judiciary’s role in our democracy. In April, the court ruled 4-2 (with one justice recused) that the old law’s complete ban on abortion, enacted when Arizona was still a territory, sprang back into place once the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its June 2022 Dobbs decision. A 15-week restriction that the state legislature passed...