Arizona Republicans are Mad About Gov. Katie Hobbs Anti-Discrimination Order

Members of Arizona’s Freedom Caucus introduced that they are going to be submitting a lawsuit to dam Arizona Governor Katie Hobb’s new govt order banning employment and hiring discrimination.

The precise govt order sounds fairly innocuous (in the event you’re towards discrimination, that’s). Most notably, it reinforces present state non-discrimination legal guidelines and directs state businesses to undertake insurance policies to make sure “hiring, promotion, recruitment, compensation, and tenure is on the idea of advantage and {qualifications}.”

The order additionally mandates that provisions in all new state “contracts” and “subcontracts” have to ban, amongst different issues, “discrimination primarily based on race, shade, intercourse, being pregnant… sexual orientation, gender id or expression.”

So what precisely has Arizona Republicans freaked out?

Nicely, the manager order is primarily focused at defending LGBTQ employees from discrimination.

Particularly, they appear to be accusing Gov. Hobbs of making an attempt to legislate from the Governor’s workplace. As a result of nothing says “Democracy is dying,” fairly like ensuring individuals can’t get fired only for being homosexual.

“If Katie Hobbs desires to legislate, she must get her butt out of the Governor’s Workplace and run for the legislature and are available again and be a part of us and try this job,” State Rep. Jake Hoffman instructed reporters, in response to the Arizona Mirror.

Hoffman and his buddies on the Arizona Freedom Caucus, who, in response to the Arizona Mirror, plan on suing over the legislation, stated they’d, “stand in (Hobbs’) means in each step of the method.”

It’s not completely clear if the Arizona Freedom Caucus can be profitable in blocking Hobb’s govt order. Republicans have definitely gotten good at wielding the judiciary towards liberal coverage objectives. (I imply, have a look at what occurred to Biden’s pupil mortgage forgiveness program).

So, it’ll be price watching what precisely goes down in Arizona as Hobbs battles it out towards her right-wing detractors.