A lawyer for Kris Mayes says Abe Hamadeh is not entitled to his requested do-over of his legal bid to install him as the state's attorney general.
Read More »Mayes’ attorney: Hamadeh not entitled to his requested do-over of bid to be installed as AG
Lawyers for Arizona inmate facing execution file new appeal 
Lawyers for an Arizona death row inmate scheduled to be executed on Nov. 16 have filed a new appeal. Murray Hooper's attorneys filed another petition for post-conviction relief Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court.
Read More »Arizona AG seeks probe of election integrity group 
Arizona's Republican attorney general, Mark Brnovich, on Friday asked the FBI and IRS to look into an election integrity group that claimed to have uncovered widespread fraud in the 2020 election but never provided evidence.
Read More »Auditor General’s Office: AHCCCS not adequately investigating potential fraud or abuse 
Arizona's healthcare program for low-income residents is not doing a good job of investigating potential incidents of fraud or abuse committed by providers or patients, the state Auditor General's Office has concluded.
Read More »Court: 292-year sentence in string of nonviolent burglaries is not excessive 
A divided federal appeals court said a 292-year sentence for a string of nonviolent burglaries over three months in Bullhead City was not “grossly disproportionate” to the crime and did not violate the Eighth Amendment.
Read More »Taxpayers must fund tab for attorneys hired by lawmakers who killed Prop 208 
Arizona taxpayers are going to pick up the tab for attorneys hired by Republican lawmakers who successfully killed a 2020 voter-approved plan to tax the state's most wealthy to fund education.
Read More »Audit probe poses problem for next AG 
The extraordinary interim report that Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued on his election fraud investigation last week indicated that the probe might take months or even years to finish, which suggests it might not be over by the time Brnovich ...
Read More »Hobbs wants bigger budget – doesn’t ask nicely 
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs wants to nearly double her office’s funding next year because of new burdens imposed by Republican legislators.
Read More »Senate mulls next step in auditing 2.1M ballots
Pallets of ballots sit on trucks in Phoenix as senators figure out what to do next, three months after they declared they wanted their own audit of the presidential election. The 28 tons of paper packed in hundreds of neatly ...
Read More »Ducey fires agency director who defended tax hike 
The head of the state Department of Revenue was ousted December 29, the apparent victim of taking a legal position on a new tax contrary to that of Gov. Doug Ducey, his boss.
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