The Laboratories of Democracy

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment to This Post)

Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ gets done, and where there’s music in the cafés at night and revolution in the air.

We begin in Arizona, where the state’s Attorney General and a MAGA-drunk local prosecutor are fighting over one of those you-made-the-guys-in-Kevlar-feel-bad lawsuits that are inevitable when an old fool gives license for all manner of young fools to run amuck.

It all began when a state senator named Analise Ortiz posted the locations of ICE operatives, which is not remotely illegal, but which has irked one Brad Miller, the attorney for Pinal County, where Ortiz does not live. Miller wants to be

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