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 people’s immigration status if they have a reasonable suspicion that they’re in the country illegally.

Yellow Sheet Report assistant editor Christian Palmer talks about the proposed changes to judicial merit selection, and why it's so important.

A federal judge in Phoenix is set to formally take a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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.

The impetus for the latest Republican effort to eliminate Arizona’s process of judicial merit selection has nothing to do with judicial merit selection.

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.

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.

Opponents of Arizona's system of publicly funded campaigns were further encouraged by a federal judge's Aug. 27 decision to eliminate Connecticut's campaign finance reform method in entirety. The ruling by District of Connecticut Judge Stefan Underhill blasted the state's Citizens' Election Program, a voluntary program enacted in 2005 to provide legislative and statewide candidates with public campaign funding.

Patrick Wade Bearup was not the person who delivered a beating to a Phoenix man in 2002, nor did shoot the man twice in the head on a dusty road near the old mining town of Crown King. But he ...