Maricopa County says it's prepared to foil potential Election Day violence
As concerns grow nationwide about potential political violence at the polls, Maricopa County says it's prepared to stop any threats.| Arizona Mirror
As concerns grow nationwide about potential political violence at the polls, Maricopa County says it's prepared to stop any threats.| Arizona Mirror
The fate of the state’s water depends on this election. For politicians and voters, it’s mostly an afterthought.| Arizona Mirror
With only two weeks until the election, voting advocates, candidates, parties and community organizers are making last-ditch efforts to rally people to vote across Arizona.| Arizona Mirror
In the November election, Arizona voters will decide whether to open up the state’s primary elections to include all voters and candidates, or to fortify the status quo with closed, partisan primaries.| Arizona Mirror
In a move that underscores the high stakes of Arizona's legislative elections, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee announced today it will pump nearly $1 million into targeted races across the state, adding to the $8.5 million that’s already been spent by outside groups in a handful of key districts.| Arizona Mirror
Leaked chats from the American Patriots Three Percent militia reveal how they organized their efforts to monitor ballot drop boxes in Arizona.| Arizona Mirror
Votes will be counted for an open primaries ballot initiative that has been the subject of whiplash-inducing court challenge, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled just 31 days before the election.| Arizona Mirror
The effort to guarantee abortion access in Arizona has now surpassed the number of signatures it needs to qualify for the ballot — and the campaign said it will keep collecting signatures in order to ensure that Arizona voters will get to weigh in this year on whether abortion should be protected.| Arizona Mirror
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to make abortion almost completely illegal by reinstating a 160-year-old ban on the procedure.| Arizona Mirror
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge said that a ballot proposition to end partisan primaries in Arizona will have votes cast for it counted after all.| Arizona Mirror
A ballot proposition to end partisan primaries appears to have thousands of duplicate signatures, putting it below the threshold to be placed on the ballot. But what that means for voters remains to be seen.| Arizona Mirror
Public school advocates demand that private school voucher reform be included in the state budget, with a looming $1.3 billion deficit.| Arizona Mirror
The Arizona Legislature passed an almost $18 billion budget Wednesday, one that Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs negotiated with Republican leaders in the House and Senate.| Arizona Mirror
A proposal to let all 1.1 million Arizona students use taxpayer-funded vouchers to attend private school passed the Arizona House of Representatives Wednesday after two Republicans who had opposed previous efforts to expand the program changed their position.| Arizona Mirror
There’s a bit of good news as negotiations on state spending between GOP leaders and Gov. Katie Hobbs have begun in earnest: The state’s projected budget deficit is about $400 million less than it was three months ago, thanks to an uptick in revenue.| Arizona Mirror
Lower courts had blocked enforcement of a 2022 law, but a split Supreme Court said the law can be enforced while litigation continues| Arizona Mirror
With the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that now requires potential voters to provide proof of citizenship with their state-created voter registration forms, Indigenous voting rights advocates want Indigenous people to know that they can still register to vote as tribal citizens.| Arizona Mirror
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has directed agents to stop discarding migrants’ personal belongings, after a scathing report detailing how medicine, clothes, cell phones, cash and identity documents have been taken by authorities at holding facilities and never returned| Arizona Mirror
Bryan Blehm, a Scottsdale divorce attorney who represented failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in her bid to overturn her 2022 defeat and lied to the state Supreme Court on her behalf, has been suspended from practicing law in Arizona for two months.| Arizona Mirror
Despite her claims otherwise, Kari Lake has given up her right to defend herself in a defamation case filed by Stephen Richer.| Arizona Mirror
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is suing Kari Lake for defamation, after enduring an onslaught of vitriol and false claims.| Arizona Mirror
Riding high on the recently completed Democratic National Convention and the enthusiasm that has propelled her to a lead in the national polls, Vice President Kamala Harris is launching a campaign to mobilize Generation Z voters on 150 campuses across battleground states| Arizona Mirror
In July, Arizona's reeling medical marijuana market dropped below 100,000 qualifying patients, bringing into stark relief the steady decline of the medical program as the adult-use, recreational market continues to dominate| Arizona Mirror
After months of stalling, a judge has for a second time ordered Kari Lake and her husband to hand over documents to Stephen Richer that pertain to her defamatory statements about the Maricopa County Recorder.| Arizona Mirror
Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s nomination for president Thursday evening, pitching her candidacy as an opportunity for the nation to move forward, rather than accept a dark future she said would follow a second election of her Republican opponent| Arizona Mirror
On and off the stage in Chicago, reproductive rights have been a major topic of conversation, a shift from past Democratic conventions| Arizona Mirror
Actress and climate activist Julia Louis-Dreyfus asked eight Democratic women governors Wednesday if she would be ready for public office after playing a vice president and president on the hit cable TV show “Veep.”| Arizona Mirror
A federal judge granted the Hualapai Tribe’s request for a temporary restraining order against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, freezing an exploratory drilling lithium project in the Big Sandy River watershed near the tribe’s sacred spring.| Arizona Mirror
For years, the Hualapai Tribe tried to work with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management by actively voicing their concerns about a lithium exploration project near Wikieup, in northern Arizona.| Arizona Mirror
Proposition 136 would amend the Arizona Constitution to allow lawsuits against citizen ballot initiatives before the initiative goes to the ballot.| Arizona Mirror
With the stroke of a pen Wednesday, Gov. Doug Ducey made it illegal for Arizona women to seek an abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy — even if they became pregnant because they were raped.| Arizona Mirror
Jurors found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to a porn star.| Arizona Mirror
In a last-ditch effort to oppose the state’s abortion rights ballot measure, Arizona Republicans added “unborn human being” to a description of it that’s set to be included in a voter information pamphlet — and now they’re facing a lawsuit for violating a state law requiring the use of impartial, nonpartisan language.| Arizona Mirror
Proposition 136 would amend the Arizona Constitution to allow lawsuits against citizen ballot initiatives before the initiative goes to the ballot.| Arizona Mirror
Advocates for abortion access say compounding crises of abortion bans, rising economic costs and systemic health care issues are beginning to cause significant funding challenges and potential disruptions to reproductive care of all kinds.| Arizona Mirror
The Democratic National Committee is placing billboards across Phoenix that highlights former President Donald Trump’s connections to the controversial Project 2025.| Arizona Mirror
Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick has recused himself from participating in an appeal aimed to block an abortion rights initiative from being put to voters in November.| Arizona Mirror
An anti-abortion group is hoping the Arizona Supreme Court will block voters from deciding whether to give Arizonans the right to abortion.| Arizona Mirror
Voters in November will be able to decide whether to amend the Arizona Constitution to guarantee the right to abortion, state election officials said Monday.| Arizona Mirror
Bill Montgomery has said abortion is 'genocide' and accused providers of 'killing children' to 'sell their body parts'| Arizona Mirror
A bid to block the state’s abortion rights initiative was tossed out, with a judge ruling there’s no reason to prevent it being considered.| Arizona Mirror
Backers of Arizona’s abortion rights ballot measure are calling for state Supreme Court Justice Bill Montgomery, who previously accused Planned Parenthood of committing “genocide,” to step away from a case that could determine whether the phrase “unborn human being” is used to describe the initiative in a voter information pamphlet.| Arizona Mirror
An Arizona Supreme Court justice whose wife was on the legislative panel being sued for using “unborn human being” to describe the Arizona Abortion Access Act in a voter information pamphlet has decided to step away from the case.| Arizona Mirror
Arizona Right to Life still hopes to convince a judge that the Arizona Abortion Access Act is unconstitutionally too confusing for voters| Arizona Mirror
Republican lawmakers violated state law when they used the phrase “unborn human being” to describe the Arizona Abortion Access Act in a voter information pamphlet| Arizona Mirror
Arizona’s abortion rights initiative is one step away from being considered by voters in the fall, after the campaign behind it turned in more than double the number of signatures necessary to qualify for the ballot.| Arizona Mirror
A group has filed a lawsuit challenging a ballot proposal that would give Arizona unprecedented authority to enforce federal immigration law.| Arizona Mirror
A Maricopa County judge struck down a ban on public schools imposing face mask mandates and a host of other policy changes that lawmakers inserted into the state budget, and with them, may have forced a fundamental change in the way the legislature does business when it passes its annual budget each year.| Arizona Mirror
Arizona Republicans want to give local police officers permission to arrest migrants, but there’s no plan to cover the costs that law enforcement officials and even the GOP backers of the proposal say it will incur| Arizona Mirror
After three weeks of trying, the Arizona House of Representatives has voted to repeal a near-total abortion ban that was written in 1864 after the state Supreme Court earlier this month ruled that it could be enforced, setting the stage for the end of abortion services in the Grand Canyon State.| Arizona Mirror
An anti-abortion group filed a lawsuit to block voters from deciding whether the Arizona Constitution should be amended to protect abortion rights, claiming the ballot measure is too confusing and misleading.| Arizona Mirror
A judge on Friday rejected a lawsuit against a GOP ballot referral that would make it a state crime for migrants to cross the southern border and empower local police officers to arrest them, clearing the past for it to go before voters in November.| Arizona Mirror
Proponents of a ballot measure that would radically change how Arizona’s primaries are run — making them more equitable, they say — turned in hundreds of thousands more voter signatures than it needed to make it onto the November ballot.| Arizona Mirror
Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives are mulling several possible abortion proposals to send to the ballot this November to compete with an abortion rights initiative, but it’s unclear if their caucus can align behind any of them.| Arizona Mirror
A day after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled to reinstate a near-total abortion ban from 1864, Republican lawmakers in the legislature blocked multiple efforts to repeal the law, saying they need more time to consider the repercussions of doing so.| Arizona Mirror
Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Wednesday that a grand jury had indicted 18 people in a fake elector scheme that aimed to install Donald Trump as president after he lost the 2020 election| Arizona Mirror
A new report from the Grand Canyon Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, shows that the estimated net cost of the universal portion of Arizona’s school voucher program is $332 million in the current fiscal year — a figure that will grow to around $429 million next year.| Arizona Mirror
