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Panel to meet after courts rule on Prop 204 description
A legislative committee meets Thursday in response to court orders that it must change its official description of a ballot measure falls short of being a required impartial analysis.
Plea deal could give Loughner life in Tucson shooting
A possible plea deal in the deadly Tucson shootings that wounded then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords would send Jared Lee Loughner to prison for the rest of his life, a person familiar with the case said Saturday.
Brewer orders training ahead of court decision
Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday ordered a state board to redistribute a training video on the state's controversial immigration law to all law enforcement agencies. The move comes ahead of an expected ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court this month on the law, which was signed by Brewer in 2010.
Brewer wants to merge suits over SB1070
Attorneys for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer have asked a federal judge to consolidate two of the three remaining challenges to the state's 2010 immigration enforcement law.
Judge: IRC can’t be investigated for open meeting law violations
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has dealt the Independent Redistricting Commission a sweeping victory by declaring that the agency is not bound by state open meeting laws or subject to investigations into the contested hiring of a mapping consultant.
Judge upholds major portions of Alabama’s SB1070-style law
A federal judge in Alabama upheld two major provisions of that state’s illegal immigration law that are nearly identical to key portions of SB1070 that were struck down. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Blackburn blocked some portions of HB56 in her ruling on Wednesday but upheld provisions making it a crime to not carry immigration papers and requiring law enforcement officers to check peopl[...]
Christian Palmer discusses the proposed changes for Arizona’s judge selection process
Yellow Sheet Report assistant editor Christian Palmer talks about the proposed changes to judicial merit selection, and why it's so important.
Phoenix judge to formally take 9th Circuit seat
A federal judge in Phoenix is set to formally take a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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.
Conservatives target merit selection of judges
The impetus for the latest Republican effort to eliminate Arizona’s process of judicial merit selection has nothing to do with judicial merit selection.
Proposed order bans matching funds
Nearing the 5:00 end-of-the-business-day deadline, Circuit Court Judge Roslyn Silver issued a proposed order banning matching funds. But it isn't the final word on whether the funds will be passed out to Clean Elections candidates in 2010.
Courts busy in 2009, but definitive rulings sparse
In 2009, the Arizona Supreme Court issued almost three-dozen opinions on public endeavors ranging from the death penalty to legislative redistricting, access to public records and the extent of the Attorney General's power to fight illegal immigration.
