Maybe there is hope for Kari Lake if she gets her case held in the Arizons supreme court.Seems there is a shortage of liberals on the court.
Below is a long clip from the link:
Ducey seeks ‘constitutional conservatives’ and ‘textualists’
In a recent interview with The Arizona Republic, Ducey called appointing justices “one of the most important responsibilities any governor has.”
“It’s something I’ve taken very seriously,” he said. “I’m always trying to find someone — as someone who believes in the separation of powers — that doesn’t want to be governor and doesn’t want to be a legislator, they want to be a justice.”
Though Ducey says he has no particular litmus test for prospective judges on issues such as reproductive rights, he clearly prefers a certain judicial approach.
He has said more than once that he aims to appoint “constitutional conservatives,” who support small government and individual rights, and “textualists,” who interpret laws based on their literal meaning.
Ducey’s first pick for the court, Clint Bolick, told reporters at the time of his 2016 appointment that “when judges stray from the text of the Constitution and supplant their own ideas ... they’re amending the Constitution,” which is “beyond the scope of proper judicial action.’’
Bolick also has been called “one of the nation’s most prominent libertarian legal activists” for his work defending individual rights.
He co-founded the Institute for Justice in Washington, D.C., to stop what he viewed as government overstepping its bounds; held a senior position at the Goldwater Institute, which also advocates for limited government; and has defended causes including parents’ ability to put public money toward private-school tuition.
Still, the legal community generally views Bolick — who is not registered with either party — as an independent thinker who didn’t much change the makeup of the court when he replaced Republican Justice Rebecca White Berch.
Ducey’s next two appointments, Andrew Gould and John Lopez, are a different story.
‘No one left on the court who is liberal’
The governor added Gould, an Appellate Court judge, and Lopez, a former solicitor general, to the court in 2016. Their appointments were part of a Legislature-backed court expansion that increased the number of justices from five to seven.
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