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Arizona and the feds clash – again – this time over voter registration

[caption id="attachment_49356" align="alignleft" width="575" caption="Mi Familia Vota volunteer Yvette Saenz, 19, registers Guadalupe and Manuel Mercado for the permanent early voter list as their grandson, Alex Mercado, watches. Saenz also...

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Arizona mulls drug testing for jobless benefits

State officials warn that legislation to require drug testing for all people applying for unemployment benefits conflicts with federal rules and law. And the officials say that means enacting the...

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Senate panel approves measure to allow guns in school zones

Federal laws generally prohibit weapons within a thousand feet from school grounds. But a panel of legislators this week advanced a proposal to let most Arizona residents carry firearms up...

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House OKs measure to allow guns in school zones

Federal law prohibits weapons within 1,000 feet of a school, but a proposal that won approval in the House of Representatives today would allow most Arizonans to carry a gun...

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Senate advancing measure to nullify federal laws

A handful of senators has revived a proposal to allow Arizona to ignore federal laws, setting up more potential showdowns between the state and the Obama administration. The bill, which...

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Humble seeking medical marijuana clarity from feds

The Arizona Department of Health Services is looking for a little more clarification from the federal government following a warning that the state’s medical marijuana...

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Senate kills state ‘nullification’ bill again

Advocates for a more direct action against federal overreach suffered a major setback on Tuesday when the Senate once again rejected a proposal that would have allowed Arizona to nullify...

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State nullification bill is back — barely

Proving once again that no legislation is ever dead until lawmakers have wrapped up the year’s session, supporters of a proposal creating a state mechanism to nullify to a federal...

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State Bar opinion on med marijuana lawyer ethics

A State Bar of Arizona opinion says lawyers may assist clients in complying with the state’s new Medical Marijuana Act under certain circumstances. The issue arose because of a conflict...

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Like it or not, here comes ‘Obamacare’

It’s a safe bet that Republicans in the Arizona Legislature never envisioned themselves as facilitators of the federal health care law. Yet, ironically, that’s exactly the role they may fill...

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