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Former congressman Rick Renzi gets new sentencing date
A new sentencing date has been set for former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi for his convictions on charges that he used his office for personal financial gain and looted a family insurance business to help pay for his 2002 campaign.
Voting rights ruling sparks concern about future discrimination
Democrats and Latino activists are concerned that Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling lifting the requirement that Arizona and other states get federal approval for election and voting law changes may have ended their best chance of stopping a newly passed omnibus election law.
Renzi seeks postponement of Aug. 16 sentencing
TUCSON ai??i?? Former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi has requested a postponement of his Aug. 16 sentencing date for more than a half dozen corruption charges accusing him of using his office for personal financial gain and looting a family insurance business to help pay for his 2002 campaign.
Arpaio’s lawyers appeal racial-profiling ruling
Attorneys for an Arizona sheriff are appealing a federal judge's ruling that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office racially profiled Latinos in its immigration enforcement.
State gathering evidence in Arizona license battle
Civil rights advocates have four months to gather evidence in their case to overturn Arizona's ban on driver's licenses for young immigrants who have gotten work permits under an Obama administration program.
Arizona appeal of voter ruling would go to panel with no members
Arizona has taken the U.S. Supreme Court’s advice to sidestep its ruling against the state, but there’s a catch. In doing so, it would be appealing to an effectively non-existent federal commission.
Arizona congressmen want more flexible voter law
Arizona lawmakers at the state and federal level are working on separate efforts that would make it harder to vote in what Democrats are calling an attack on low-income and Latino voters.
Appeal planned on Ariz. immigrant license policy
Immigrant rights advocates plan to appeal a court ruling that declined to halt Gov. Jan Brewer's order denying driver's licenses for young immigrants who have gotten work permits and avoided deportation under an Obama administration policy.
Appeals Court rules Prop. 100 as constitutional
An appeals court ruled 2-1 today that Arizona will be able to continue holding illegal immigrants charged with certain serious felonies without bail.
Rosemont Mine’s water permit upheld
TUCSON ai??i?? Opponents have failed to prove that a proposed new open pit mine near Tucson would harm groundwater supplies, an administrative judge recently ruled.
Supreme Court strikes down Arizona voting law, but leaves door open to challenges
In the first of two widely-anticipated voting rights decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court this month, the justices struck down Arizona’s voter-imposed law requiring residents to show proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections.
Former US Rep. Renzi convicted on 17 of 32 counts
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi on more than a half dozen corruption charges accusing him of using his office for personal financial gain and looting a family insurance business to help pay for his 2002 campaign.
