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In battle to cut Medicaid, Arizona faces new challenge
Now that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has said Arizona doesn’t need a waiver from the federal government to remove 250,000 patients from AHCCCS, the timing and mechanism used in removing those people will be key to a planned legal challenge from patients contending to be harmed by the cuts. Sebelius is flanked by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Lawmakers offer bills affecting access to records, meetings
Requiring that all meetings of public bodies include time for the public to express concerns and introduce issues would make government more open and interactive, a state lawmaker contends.
Policy center’s quandary: How to give voters scoop on judges
Uncomfortable with the sources of information voters have before judicial-retention elections, the Center for Arizona Policy is seeking more revealing electronic scorekeeping on judges’ rulings.
Arizona schedules executions on March 29, April 5
The Arizona Supreme Court said Tuesday it will give the state the go-ahead to execute Daniel Wayne Cook.
Gould: Screening commission showed its bias
The conservative principle of eliminating judicial merit selection now has a poster child for Sen. Ron Gould, a Lake Havasu City Republican, who on Jan. 31 filed a stack of proposals to change how Arizona chooses its judges.
Adams’ pick for redistricting commission: Scott Freeman
State legislators have begun the final step of appointing nominees to the Independent Redistricting Commission, which will redraw the boundaries of the state’s legislative and congressional districts. The process kicked off Monday, Jan. 31, as Republican House Speaker Kirk Adams selected Scott Freeman, an attorney from Maricopa County, to serve as a commission member.
Man convicted of murder in self-defense case granted new trial
The Legislature can retroactively apply a 2006 law that shifted the burden of proof in self-defense claims from defendants to prosecutors, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Republicans get two new choices for redistricting commission
An apologetic screening commission not only chose two new nominees for Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission on Jan. 21, but it also sought to satisfy Republican legislative leaders by choosing one from outside Maricopa County.
Panel to replace nominees stricken from list
A state screening panel holds an emergency meeting Friday to respond to an Arizona Supreme Court ruling on nominations for appointments to the state redistricting commission.
No redistricting commission yet, but maneuvering under way
Even though Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission members have yet to be chosen, some groups already are preparing for the inevitable tug-of-maps to come in the rearranging of Arizona’s congressional and legislative districts.
Redistricted into a corner: Republicans had too many Maricopa County residents for boundary-drawing panel
Unaccustomed to losing, Arizona Republicans are pointing fingers in all different directions to explain how they have found themselves in the middle of a desperate last-ditch struggle to influence who will be responsible for redrawing the state’s legislative and congressional districts.
Two out of three for Adams and Pearce
The Arizona Supreme Court has ordered the Commission on Appellate Court Appointments to give Pearce and Adams two new Republican IRC nominees, but didn't declare independent nominee Paul Bender ineligible.
