PHOENIX — Upset with her executive order last week on abortions, Republicans who until now have been slow to confirm the governor’s nominations are now bringing the process to a dead stop.
In a letter Monday to Katie Hobbs, the three Republican members of the Committee on Director Nominations said their role, at least in part, is to ensure the people the governor picks to head state agencies will follow the laws as written by the Legislature.
But Sens. Jake Hoffman, Sine Kerr and T.J. Shope said the executive order Friday by the governor to strip the state’s 15 county attorneys of their ability to prosecute all abortion cases and give that to Attorney General Kris Mayes, a supporter of abortion rights, gives them “tremendous concerns about your office’s future attempts to act outside its vested authority.”
