Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says she will redirect the election crimes division’s focus to prosecute election-related threats and protect voting rights - and plans to investigate multiple fake elector schemes by Republicans in support of former President Donald Trump. Read more»

At least three Arizona Republican state legislators have been subpoenaed by the U.S. Justice Department’s special counsel, Jack Smith, as part of the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss. Read more»

House lawmakers who have been investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol voted on Monday to have the Department of Justice prosecute former President Donald Trump for inciting the insurrection - the first time that a former president has faced such a referral. Read more»

Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem has repeatedly denied the results of the 2020 presidential election and was present at the Jan. 6 insurrection at the nation’s Capitol - now, he’s running to “restore honor, restore integrity, restore security to the secretary of state’s office.” Read more»

Scottsdale led all Arizona cities for donations to Trump-affiliated fundraising committees - with donors from Phoenix and Tucson close behind - as retirees were by far the biggest group of Arizona donors, accounting for 56% of contributions from the state to the Save America PAC. Read more»

A jury found former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon guilty Friday on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Read more»

Donald Trump ignored White House staff, family members and outside advisers who urged the president to call off the mob attack on Jan. 6 and instead sat in the White House dining room watching Fox News coverage of the assault, according to testimony before a U.S. House panel. Read more»

The Arizona Republican Party formally censured House Speaker Rusty Bowers Tuesday as “unfit to serve” the party, less than one month after he testified to the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Read more»

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators released legislation Wednesday that aims to clarify the 1887 law that governs how Congress counts Electoral College votes following a presidential election. Read more»

The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan.6 attack and Donald Trump’s role in it will focus in a Thursday evening hearing on the former president’s refusal for more than three hours to call off the rioters storming the U.S. Capitol. Read more»

Arizona Rep. Debbie Lesko, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar were small parts of a nearly three-hour hearing in which committee members methodically laid out what they said was evidence of then-President Donald Trump’s role in inciting violence on January 6. Read more»

The U.S. House panel investigating Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election described Tuesday how the president called on his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 for a “wild” protest - resulting in an insurrection. Read more»

After winning praise for telling Congress how former President Donald Trump tried to intimidate him into illegally overturning the 2020 election in Arizona, House Speaker Rusty Bowers earned derision for saying that he’d vote for Trump in 2024. Read more» 1

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Mesa Republican Senator Kelly Townsend were subpoenaed by the FBI for an on-going investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged pressure campaign on state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Read more»

The 84 people who signed bogus documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election include dozens of local Republican Party leaders, four current candidates for public office, six current office holders and at least five previous office holders. Read more»