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Arizona police agencies chose not to partner with ICE. This GOP bill would take that choice away.
Arizona Republicans are hoping to turn every police department in the state into a processing hub for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Tuesday, the state House of Representatives gave preliminary approval to Senate Bill 1055, which would require law enforcement agencies in Arizona to notify ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection if they […]
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Senate confirms ethics complaint against Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego has been referred
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republican leaders Tuesday defended the secretive process used in that chamber to investigate allegations of wrongdoing, though they did confirm referring a complaint made against Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego to the Ethics Committee. “At the beginning, we always start very, very privately to protect members because we don’t want to […]
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12 Republican attorneys general move to defend Trump’s executive order on mail ballots
A dozen Republican state attorneys general are moving to defend President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail ballots from legal challenges mounted by Democrats. The GOP officials, led by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, argued in multiple court filings Monday and Tuesday in response to Democratic lawsuits that the March 31 order provides states with “optional […]
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Was there really a Baseline Killer? A new appeal claims Phoenix police framed Mark Goudeau
Twenty years after he was arrested and identified as the Baseline Killer, Mark Goudeau still maintains that he is innocent. Goudeau, now 61, alleges that Phoenix Police detectives planted incriminating evidence in his house and tampered with DNA findings, according to an appeal filed in Maricopa County Superior Court in February. He further alleges that […]
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Voting rights groups open new legal front against Trump’s push to collect state voter data
Voting rights groups launched a legal challenge Tuesday against the Trump administration’s effort to sweep up sensitive data on millions of Americans with the aim of identifying noncitizen voters, arguing that the U.S. Department of Justice is building a dangerous centralized national voter list ahead of the midterm elections in November. The federal lawsuit, filed in […]
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Burgum defends Trump’s fossil fuel agenda as Democrats accuse Interior of ‘kneecapping’ renewables
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended the Trump administration’s approach to energy production Monday, as Democrats on a U.S. House Appropriations panel accused the department of kowtowing to oil and gas interests at the expense of renewable energy. Burgum said President Donald Trump’s administration aimed to ease regulatory burdens on oil and gas producers, and said […]
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Green Party governor candidate her own party called a ‘sham’ survives two ballot challenges
The Arizona Green Party candidate for governor who used to sell MAGA merch and was a Republican Party official just days before she launched her campaign has defeated two challenges to keep her off the July primary ballot. Last week, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled that, even though 40% of the voter signatures […]
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Show me the money: Businesses line up for $166B in refunds from Trump’s illegal tariffs
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection tariff refund system went live Monday, marking what small business advocates call a “complex” first step for entrepreneurs to recoup $166 billion in import taxes accrued under President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in February. Importers and brokers can now upload […]
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Alma & Consuelo Hernandez beat legal efforts to boot them off legislative ballot
Sisters and state lawmakers Alma and Consuelo Hernandez can remain on the ballot for their races for the Arizona Legislature this year. Pima County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Kuhn ruled Thursday that neither candidate should be booted from the ballot over unpaid fines related to unfiled campaign finance reports. State Rep. Alma Hernandez was facing […]
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Amid a power struggle, Maricopa officials hurl unsubstantiated claims of voter disenfranchisement
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott Blaney appeared somewhat exasperated with the parties sitting before him in a drab courtroom in Phoenix on Feb. 11. He was presiding over a civil case that centered on a messy battle between mostly-GOP county leaders over election control. Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap contended that the county board […]
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Justin Heap is undermining, not restoring, voters’ trust. It’s time for him to go.
Justin Heap is exactly the kind of person you don’t want to oversee elections if you truly want “transparency and integrity” in a system that sustains our democracy. In the 15 or so months since he became recorder in Arizona’s largest county, after ousting Republican Stephen Richer in the 2024 election, Heap has dragged the […]
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Medicaid rule targeting abortion providers set to expire
A controversial rule enacted last year that denies federal Medicaid funding to abortion providers is likely to expire this summer, despite anti-abortion pressure on Republicans to renew it. Leaders in Congress in recent days have insisted that a new federal spending bill needs to be as stripped down as possible and focused on funding related […]
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A historically unpopular Trump came to Phoenix to rally the base by bragging about Iran
President Donald Trump is historically unpopular and his approval ratings are underwater in Arizona and the other six swing states he won in 2024, largely because independent voters have abandoned him. With the mid-terms rapidly approaching, the president came to Phoenix to gin up support for Republicans — not by reaching out to those disaffected […]
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Surprise ICE detention plan scaled back from 1,500 beds to 542
Some of the Trump administration’s controversial new warehouse immigration detention centers are getting scaled back and postponed as states and cities fight back and new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin reviews actions taken by his ousted predecessor, Kristi Noem. Some states and cities have seen more communication and compromise as Mullin takes over and the […]
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Mark Kelly: Pentagon can’t cite a single case supporting Hegseth’s effort to strip his rank
WASHINGTON — Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly’s legal team is urging a federal appeals court to uphold a ruling that allows the former Navy captain to keep his retirement rank and pay while his First Amendment case against the Pentagon moves forward. Benjamin C. Mizer, partner at Arnold & Porter, wrote in a brief filed April […]
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Kelly, Gallego urge DHS to halt planned ICE detention facilities in Surprise and Marana
Arizona U.S. Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego are urging the Trump administration to put a halt to two planned detention facilities in the state as opposition to them grows and questions continue to mount, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Arizona Mirror. “Given the scale and pace of these efforts and the […]
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Republicans want to give individual legislators the power to order arrests
State Rep. Tony Rivero thinks the Arizona Legislature doesn’t have enough power to arrest people who don’t show up when lawmakers demand. The Peoria Republican wants to change that by giving the Arizona Senate president, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives or any committee chairman in either chamber the power to unilaterally issue […]
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Katie Hobbs sitting on $7.2M war chest, outraising both GOP challengers combined six to one
In her bid for a second term, Gov. Katie Hobbs is sitting on a campaign war chest that is six times what both of her Republican challengers have combined, and she raised nearly twice as much as Andy Biggs and David Schweikert did in the first three months of the year. In the first quarter, […]
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A single vote kept Trump’s Iran war authority intact as Hegseth says U.S. remains ‘locked and loaded’
WASHINGTON — The approval gap on President Donald Trump’s war in Iran narrowed slightly Thursday in the U.S. House, when a War Powers Resolution gained a handful of votes, though still falling just short of passage. The effort to force Trump to seek congressional authorization before further action in Iran failed 213-214, with one Republican voting […]
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Voters face a crowded 2026 ballot as legislators push back against citizen-led initiatives
More than a third of state ballot measures that voters will be asked to consider this year relate to democracy, with questions on voting rights, election processes, redistricting and similar issues. “It’s the redistricting fights that are really getting heated after the Trump administration began pressuring Republican-led states to shore up the GOP majority in […]
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