Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick reacted defiantly to an ethics complaint filed against him by the progressive group Save our Schools Arizona (SOSAZ). “Bring it on!” he said in a statement issued to the press in response. SOSAZ alleged some remarks Bolick made during a speech to a Republican club crossed into politics.
Bolick and another conservative Arizona Supreme Court Justice, Kathryn King, are up for reelection in 2024 and progressives are targeting them for over their vote upholding Arizona’s old abortion law, which has since been repealed.
SOSAZ cited an article in Politico which quoted Bolick’s remarks to the Sun City West Republican Club in early October. He said their ruling on abortion was only “a convenient excuse to try to get people on the left riled up and replace us with judges who will rubber stamp their ideological agenda.” He said he would continue “fighting for conservative principles,” and brought up his work for the Goldwater Institute and the Reagan Justice Department, and mentioned that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a mentor and his child’s godfather.
The group said in a press release, “SOSAZ’s written complaint asserts that Justice Bolick’s active campaigning at a Republican Party event violates several provisions of the Arizona Code of Judicial Conduct, which states that judges ‘should aspire at all times to conduct that ensures the greatest possible public confidence in their independence, impartiality, integrity, and competence.’ Justice Bolick’s appearance and comments at this Republican Party meeting certainly do not meet this standard, and we should expect better of our judges, especially those sitting on the state’s highest court.”
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