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Posted Apr 15, 2022, 2:49 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
There's no consensus about who or how many will be affected by Arizona's new "proof-of-citizenship" voting law — which is exactly how we want the state to target its power, right? (dripping sarcasm).
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Posted Mar 16, 2022, 5:11 am
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
An Arizona Senate committee approved a bill that would prohibit public schools from referring "sexually explicit" material to children without the consent of parents, despite objections that the legislation could prevent classical texts and other enhancing forms of literature from being taught. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 1, 2022, 6:37 am
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
The Republican-controlled Arizona House voted Monday to amend and advance election reform bills that would require voters to furnish proof of citizenship upon registration and prohibit election officials from being on hand counting teams. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 17, 2022, 11:08 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
A proposal to split up Maricopa County got unanimous Republican backing in a House of Representatives committee, but doesn’t have the support of the most important GOP vote in the chamber — House Speaker Rusty Bowers. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 11, 2022, 4:21 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
AG Mark Brnovich's recent opinion declaring that transnational criminal activity at the U.S.-Mexico border constituted an invasion of Arizona and that Gov. Doug Ducey has powers under the U.S. Constitution to go to war to repel it was welcome news to the leading Republican candidates vying to replace him next year.... Read more»
Posted Feb 10, 2022, 1:25 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
A House committee gave preliminary approval to two measures making it more difficult for Arizona voters to have their say on state policy at the ballot box.... Read more»
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Posted Feb 9, 2022, 8:43 pm
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
An Arizona House committee voted Wednesday to advance legislation that would ban school districts from imposing mask mandates on children amid similar actions across the country and a declining number of COVID-19 cases. ... Read more»
Updated Feb 7, 2022, 7:26 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona AG Brnovich says Gov. Ducey would be on solid constitutional ground if he invoked war powers and sent the Arizona National Guard to the U.S-Mexico border to stop what he says is an "invasion" of drug cartels and criminal gangs.... Read more»
Posted Feb 4, 2022, 10:58 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
The Republican-controlled House passed a measure Thursday that would ban sexually explicit materials in K-12 classrooms across the state.... Read more»
Posted Jan 27, 2022, 4:53 am
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
An Arizona House committee voted Wednesday to advance two election reform bills that would prohibit same-day voter registration and the use of unmonitored drop boxes for receipt of early ballots - prompting claims of unfunded mandates and discrimination.... Read more»
Posted Jan 26, 2022, 9:59 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Republicans backed a bill that would ban books like “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” “1984” and “The Great Gatsby” from Arizona schools because they contain frank descriptions of sex and sexuality - that critics say would effectively make it illegal to teach about homosexuality.... Read more»
Posted Jan 14, 2022, 10:32 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
Ken Cuccinelli - a top Citizenship and Immigration Services official in Donald Trump’s administration - spoke at the Arizona Capitol while flanked by several Republican state legislators to urge Gov. Doug Ducey to use Arizona’s National Guard to turn immigrants back at the border. ... Read more»
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Posted Jan 5, 2022, 8:36 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona voters who want to sign online petitions and the candidates who need those signatures to get their names on the ballot this November are being thwarted by a glitch in the secretary of state’s system caused by the decennial redistricting process. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 18, 2021, 10:23 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Several Arizona Republican lawmakers and a conservative advocacy group want to give voters an opportunity to impose a new identification requirement for early ballots, prompted in part by concerns that voters lack trust in elections after nearly a year of baseless fraud claims.... Read more»
Posted Jun 28, 2021, 10:41 am
Laura Gómez
/Arizona Mirror
The Arizona House of Representatives wrapped up work Friday on a $12.8 billion budget that dramatically overhauls the state’s income tax code, shields some wealthy Arizonans from paying a voter-approved tax to boost teacher pay and mandates new civics curriculum in public schools while rejecting expansion of the school voucher program.... Read more»
Posted Jun 25, 2021, 10:41 am
Laura Gómez & Jeremy Duda/Arizona Mirror
The Arizona House of Representatives passed large swaths of the state budget package Thursday, including a sweeping tax plan, a prohibition on COVID-19 vaccination requirements in public universities and rules for printing ballots with watermarks and holographic foil as "anti-fraud measures." .... Read more»