From linked article
“I wish that these people would talk to kind of anyone with a chemistry or pharmacology or toxicology background, because they’re getting bad information,” he said.
What? Talk to medical experts before passing legislation? But that would interfere with our ability to pander to our uniformed constituents desire to find easily understood if incorrect solutions to their baseless fears regarding abortions, transgenderism, education and drugs.
Meanwhile, in the real world…
Uniformed? Hey! Not all of us military types are part of the flat earther sphere of influence. 
“uninformed” damn fat fingers.
Yeah. I have that problem all the time with my cellphone. BTW, how’d you like that bit about “flat earther sphere”?
Arizona Supreme Court reverts state law regarding abortion to 1864 law, which almost totally bans the procedure.
Arizona didn’t become a state until 1912.
Heather Cox Richardson had a really interesting (and infuriating) piece on that this morning:
It looks at where this “law” came from, and all the other legal/moral things going on surrounding it.
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Arizona didn’t become a state until 1912.
And that was entirely too soon.
Dan
I read that as well. Very enlightening, and maddening.
To all Dopers: if you do not subscribe to the daily offerings by Heather Cox Richardson, you need to start immediately.
Also a law from before women had the right to vote.
I can’t imagine they thought they’d get a good price. The whole is is low and creepy. Even Trump’s people refused them, which says something.
They each got $20k, that’s not nothing and probably a good chunk of change for someone crashing at a friend’s house.
I’m unclear, however, if they only stole a diary or if it was the other items as well. The way this is worded, I’m not sure if they’re saying all these other items were also there or if they meant to imply that those items were stolen as well.
Biden had stored a handwritten journal containing highly personal entries, tax records, a digital storage card containing private family photographs and a cellphone, among other things, in a private residence in Delray Beach, Florida, where Harris was also staying.
But it’s okay because Donald says it will be “straightened out” very quickly:
From this word salad we are, apparently, meant to conclude that Trump Will Fix It----in some way entirely unspecified. States’ Rights means Arizona can impose upon its women laws as draconian as they can think of, and ALSO means that It Will Be Straightened Out.
Somehow.
(If Trump’s “just say anything” tactic actually makes him President again, the USA deserves everything it will get.)
He desperately wants the issue to go away. It’s the same way he reacted to Covid. It, too, was going to hurt his re-election chances. He thought if he kept saying it would go away, be gone by Easter, etc. that it would. Obviously learned nothing from that experience.
But isn’t it funny how he doesn’t have anything to say about the red states that have banned abortion altogether? It’s as if he only cares about abortion rights in purple states. 
He cared only about using the Republican talking point “State’s Rights”.
The context could have been any goddamn thing. An abortion ban, a burning building, a ribbon cutting, a yadda yadda yadda.
Republicans could have been responsible for bringing the situation about, or not. Whatever it is, grab a mic, say “State’s Rights”.
And a law written by a "pursuer of nubile young females": After a few years of marriage to a first wife, who divorced him,
His next wife was a girl whose name was believed to be Maria v. del Refugio, writes L. Boyd Finch, the author of the journal article. New Mexico’s delegate to Washington, Miguel Otero, was bothered by the union. He “declared that the bride was twelve years old,” Finch writes, “and that Jones had ‘abducted’ her.”
After splitting from wife number 2,
He also landed upon his third wife, Caroline Stephens, who was 15 years old. Claude, by this time, was around 50.
Ah, well. They were married for only a year, anyway, because in 1865, Finch writes, Jones “left Caroline. She never saw or heard from him again.”
Wife number four he impregnated at age 14. He eventually had a fifth wife. He was notorious as a womanizer.
And that, my friends, is the upholder of morality who wrote the Arizona law.
[Link is to WashPost, supposedly a gift link]
Y’all remember how today’s Republicans seem to love shouting how it was the Democrats who caused the Civil War? Ah, interesting bit that. Didn’t those Democrats of old say they were holding to the idea of State’s Rights? (Yeah, the right to hold people as property, but still.) Seems to me today’s Republicans would dearly love to see that little bit of American culture resurrected. (Mind you, we damn near have it in many places.)
As is his usual practice of saying his followers should do something without saying “hey, you, do this specific thing”, what I get from this:
It’s “All of you, don’t make me look bad. I’m not telling you to change that to make me look good, but if you changed that you’d make me look good.”