Fox regular Byron York opined on how terrible it was that Trump was going to get "stuck with" the blame for anti-abortion zealots like the ones on the Arizona Supreme Court that just ruled that a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable.
Here's more on that ruling:
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban still on the books in the state is enforceable, a bombshell decision that adds the state to the growing lists of places where abortion care is effectively banned.
The ruling allows an 1864 law in Arizona to stand that made abortion a felony punishable by two to five years in prison for anyone who performs one or helps a woman obtain one.
The law — which was codified in 1901, and again in 1913 — outlaws abortion from the moment of conception but includes an exception to save the woman’s life.
That Civil War-era law — enacted a half-century before Arizona even gained statehood — was never repealed and an appellate court ruled last year that it could remain on the books as long as it was “harmonized” with a 2022 law, leading to substantial confusion in Arizona regarding exactly when during a pregnancy abortion was outlawed.
As Axios reported, Republicans are scrambling to distance themselves from the "disaster" ruling. Fox has mainly been ignoring the issue with very few of their shows covering it a all, but it was covered during the panel discussion on Bret Baier's show this Tuesday, and here's how the Washington Examiner's Byron York reacted:
BAIER: Byron, significant and it seems like politically harmful to Republicans kind of across the board.
YORK: Almost seems scripted. Trump comes out yesterday, and makes this big statement about leaving abortion to the states.
He's really trying to create a tent that enough Republicans can can stand under to elect him in November.
So he does that yesterday. Today, Arizona comes out, after the Biden campaign jumps all over Trump and said states are going to do radical things and Trump is going to be at fault, and then they do this with this 1864 law.
It absolutely absolutely seems scripted, and Trump is going to get stuck with this time after time after time throughout this campaign.
Yeah, poor Trump is going to "get stuck with this." Yes he will, and rightfully so, because he owns this, and as Jessica Tarlov noted in Fox the day before, Trump's trying to have it both ways. It's not going to work because women and families are dealing with the real-life repercussions of Trump's actions every single day.
And you've got to wonder how a state Supreme Court that has all seven of their judges appointed by Republicans is somehow out to get Trump with this ruling. Good luck with that ridiculous argument. Of course the useless Baier couldn't bother to point that out.
