Why point out the year the law went into effect? Are they implying that the older the law, the less relevant it is?
They have to take it out on the court, rather than simply changing the law. Changing the law requires drafting a new one and passing it in the legislature, and then maybe enduring and responding to a legal challenge.
It was so much easier to just hang all the decision making on SCOTUS, and hoping that RBG would live forever. Now she’s dead. Post RBG, SCOTUS has forced them to make decisions and stand by them. And they simply aren’t up to it. So instead they feign outrage at the AZ high court for noting that a law is a law, and “democracy” requires representative government involving themselves in fitting the law to the times and the will of the people. It’s what Maynard G. Krebbs used to do as “WORK?!”