The NFL snatched the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona for failing to create a holiday for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., moving it to California. And last year, in a separate sport, Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game out of Atlanta after Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed election legislation that haters say is aimed at disenfranchising minorities of their rights.

“We know the NFL, with its social justice initiative, may be inclined ‘to take action,'” Reverend Stephen A. Green, president of Fair for Black Lives, told USA Today. “, he said. “We will pressure the NFL to honor our request.”

Ducey, while declining to comment on the specific measures being debated, also suggested that some of the more ambitious election proposals may not become law.

“People are running for office,” he said, a nod not just to lawmakers seeking re-election, but to the fact that many are vying to become the next secretary of state, chief executive. general of state elections.

“They’re out there saying some things that may or may not be introduced,” Ducey said.

What is moving forward, however, are the measures approved by the Senate government committee on Monday.