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HB2492, other extreme voting bills must be stopped
The Arizona Legislature is apparently done paying lip service to protecting voter access. A number of extreme bills that will upend Arizona’s well-functioning election system are rocketing through the Legislature.... […]
Erasing LGBTQ from the alphabet
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, there are more than one hundred anti-LGBTQ+ bills moving through legislatures across the country. Arizona is no exception. Numbering among the introduced bills... […]
Senate OKs making State Bar membership optional
A bill requiring the Arizona Supreme Court to license attorneys in Arizona and making State Bar of Arizona membership optional passed out of the Senate on party lines February 23. ... […]
Religion has everything to do with abortion
Four anti-abortion bills have been introduced into the state legislature including a Texas copycat bill (HR2001, HR2483, SB1044, SB1164). The issue is not whether a state has the constitutional authority... […]
Election Intersection: Slim majorities make every vote vital for election-related bills
House and Senate committees have already started to advance, on party-line votes, bills to make big changes to how Arizonans vote.
Covid battles rankle legislators
The House chambers have felt a little emptier this year. A noticeable number of members have been absent forcing leadership at times to appoint new members to committees to replace... […]
Cyber Ninjas CEO hit with arrest warning
Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan must let American Oversight attorneys depose him on January 27 or face additional sanctions and a possible civil arrest warrant, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge... […]
Legislators, Ducey take aim at education
Gov. Doug Ducey promised that education will be one of his priorities in 2022, and in his State of the State Address on January 10, he laid out an education... […]
First day of bill filing brings out early birds with ERA, title lending, short-term rentals measures
Victoria Steele walked into the Arizona Senate before the sun rose Friday, wearing a purple, white and green suffragette sash over her dark pantsuit and holding the most important piece of legislation she plans to run next year.
Hayden Samples: The most fashionable reader in Arizona politics
Hayden Samples, the reader at the Arizona House of Representatives, stands out from the sea of dull black, gray and brown outfits with his three-piece suits, colorful bolo ties and boots one might mistake for a snake.
Lovas tops lawmaker ‘batting average’ with only 4 winning bills
Of the 1,079 bills lawmakers introduced in the 2017 legislative session, 353 were passed and sent to Gov. Doug Ducey’s desk. Ducey signed 97 percent of those bills into law, vetoing 11—the lowest number of vetoes since 2004, when Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, was governor.
Ducey: Hemp not funded, student journos need supervision
Ducey penned his approval to 27 new laws on Monday, the last of what the legislature approved in its 122-day session. But he found six unacceptable, bringing his veto record this session to 11.
