Kyrsten Sinema is known for being a spoiler after campaigning as a progressive. She infamously voted against raising minimum wage. She has a hexbear emoji.
North Carolina has a law called ‘alienation of affection’ which allows a spouse to sue a person who participates in an affair from outside the marriage. Six states have ‘alienation of affection’ law.
Kyrsten Sinema’s body guard was married. Kyrsten Sinema had a sexual relationship with her bodyguard. The bodyguard’s ex-wife is suing Kyrsten Sinema for $75,000.
“Alienation of affection” law has been abolished in many jurisdictions around the world.
IIRC that’s specifically the point: it’s coming from a patriarchal view of a wife as her husband’s property, meaning if she leaves for someone else then the aggrieved ex-husband has lost “his property” and is entitled to compensation from the responsible party. Even more narrowly it’s coming from the misogynistic assumption that women will just leave their husbands for richer partners if given the chance, and the law is meant to discourage rich men from “poaching” poor men’s wives and provide restitution to “victims” of such.
Like it’s not a good concept regardless of who’s being made to pay for someone else getting dumped.
The fact that the most recent high profile cases of it have been ex wives suing their ex husband’s mistresses is more a weird and unintended consequence of the law chugging away as written, enforced by an inhuman system run by the absolute least qualified and most inhuman people you can find.