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		<title>April 25 hearing set on Arizona immigration law</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/03/april-25-hearing-set-on-arizona-immigration-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Arizona's immigration enforcement law on April 25, in the last such hearing of the high court's current term.]]></description>
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		<title>‘Puppet’ Cortes, shadowy campaign helpers unlikely to face punishment</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/20/%e2%80%98puppet%e2%80%99-cortes-shadowy-campaign-helpers-unlikely-to-face-punishment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Palmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recall candidate Olivia Cortes’ campaign may have been contrived, phony, aided by illegal means and designed to fool the public, but that doesn’t mean that she or the perpetrators of the backfired plot to help former Senate President Russell Pearce will face any punishment.
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		<title>Deadlines extended for Arizona court applications</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/18/deadlines-extended-for-arizona-court-applications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deadline to apply for appointments to fill two Arizona Court of Appeals vacancies is being extended because only a few people have applied so far and they're all Republicans.
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		<title>Federal court panel questions conduct of prosecutor in Arizona</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/17/federal-court-panel-questions-conduct-of-prosecutor-in-arizona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Pelham, Cronkite News Service</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A U.S. appeals court panel criticized a Tucson federal prosecutor who it said “presented a falsified version” of testimony in a drug-smuggling case to make the defendant look as if she had lied on the stand.]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas to file closing arguments in disciplinary case</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/17/thomas-to-file-closing-arguments-in-disciplinary-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas plans to file closing arguments Tuesday in an attorney discipline case against him.]]></description>
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		<title>Court won&#8217;t review congressional immunity defense in Rick Renzi case</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/17/court-wont-review-congressional-immunity-defense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court won't hear a bid by former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi to block his trial on charges of extortion and other crimes.]]></description>
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		<title>Retired police officers sue state over pension changes</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/12/police-sue-over-pension-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Grado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two retired cops filed suit Wednesday to regain benefits lost from the passage of SB1609, the Legislature’s marquee bill for revamping public pensions. 
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		<title>Huppenthal accepts judge&#8217;s ruling of illegal on ethnic studies program</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/06/huppenthal-accepts-judges-ruling-of-illegal-on-ethnic-studies-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Grado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State schools chief John Huppenthal today accepted an administrative law judge’s findings that Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program is illegal.

The school district’s governing board will now have to decide whether to come into compliance or lose 10 percent of the district’s state funding, which amounts to about $15 million a year, or appeal Huppenthal’s decision in Maricopa County Superior Court.]]></description>
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		<title>Year in Review: High court puts spotlight on AZ in 2011</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/12/30/year-in-review-high-court-puts-spotlight-on-az-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arizona Capitol Times Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robes and gavels were a large part of Arizona’s political scene in 2011.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a landmark election law case that came out of the state and agreed to hear SB1070.

The state Supreme Court resolved conflicts involving the Independent Redistricting Commission and trial courts were busy with lawsuits contesting cuts to Medicaid and the candidacy of a Mesa woman in the recall election of former Senate President Russell Pearce.]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoner asks state’s high court for immediate decision on death warrant</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/12/29/prisoner-asks-state%e2%80%99s-high-court-for-immediate-decision-on-death-warrant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Grado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A death row prisoner who is next in line for execution asked the Arizona Supreme Court Dec. 30 to either reject the state’s motion for his death warrant or postpone its decision until after a federal civil rights lawsuit involving other condemned inmates is resolved.]]></description>
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