• Used his position in Arizona to file a legal brief against a concealed-carry law in New York state
• Filed a brief supporting a new law in Georgia restricting mail-in voting
• Challenged the federal government’s right to say that pandemic aid cannot be given away as tax cuts
• Said that Maricopa County must comply with a subpoena issued by a handful of state senators or lose state funds
• Said private employers can mandate vaccines but must have a religious exemption that covers employees who have a moral or ethical belief about vaccines
The priority, as you can see, is to do whatever makes Mark Brnovich look like a good choice for Senate to pro-Trump Republican voters. Given those last two examples, though, it was obvious how Brnovich would come down on the Tucson mandate when a legislator from Mesa, GOP Rep. Kelly Townsend, demanded the investigation. The only question was how he would get there.
What was perhaps a little surprising is that Brnovich’s office concluded Tucson’s mandate, passed on Aug. 14, violates the law, even while acknowledging the law does not go into effect until Sept. 29.
“It will be cold comfort to city employees that state law unambiguously protects them after they were required to obtain a vaccine that they would not otherwise have obtained in the first place,” the opinion reads. “Any harm at that point would have already occurred.”
