Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill to remove authority over attorneys from the State Bar of Arizona, sponsored by State Senator Mark Finchem (R-Prescott). Senate Bill (SB) 1148 would have converted the bar to a voluntary organization, and transfer licensing and oversight of attorneys to the Arizona Supreme Court.
Finchem posted on X before Hobbs vetoed it, “Democrats are protecting the radical Arizona State Bar as it weaponizes licensing to silence conservatives. I’m fighting back with SB1148 to strip their corrupt power. The bill just advanced but the establishment is striking hard.”
In an email to supporters titled “Corrupt AZ Bar,” Finchem said his bill “takes the power away from the corrupt and extreme Arizona Bar. That entity has been weaponizing its authority for political purposes, and there is zero reason to let them get away with it!”
He continued, “For the past few years, the Arizona Bar has outed itself as being horrendously and ridiculously biased. It would regularly threaten to disbar any attorney who took a position against its own radical left politics. Basically, if you were a centrist or Republican, you were in danger of disbarment from the radicals who run the state Bar.”
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