Attorney General Mark Brnovich is going to begin enforcing Arizona's civil rights laws against private employers who discriminate based on someone's sexual orientation.
Read More »Senate abruptly adjourns, House bills go down without vote 
The Arizona Senate abruptly ended the 2020 legislative session today, catapulting leaders into planning for a special session an hour or so earlier than they expected. Senators, who already voted to end the session once this month, planned to ...
Read More »Prosecutors, some GOP lawmakers join Dems to kill forfeiture bill
Sen. Eddie Farnsworth is blaming Attorney General Mark Brnovich for the failure of his legislation to preclude prosecutors from seizing property without first getting a criminal conviction.
Read More »House adjourns, bringing session to uneasy close 
The state House of Representatives has finished its work and notified the Senate of its intent to adjourn sine die today, bringing one of the strangest legislative sessions in recent memory one step closer to its end. Typically, such a ...
Read More »House’s business immunity bill likely DOA in Senate 
The tort reform measure House Republicans tout as the main reason for continuing legislative work likely doesn't have the votes it would need in the Senate.
Read More »Masks become symbol of person’s politics, virtue 
The Senate served as a microcosm of the nation, where wearing a mask — or not wearing one — has become a political symbol for many.
Read More »A majority under pressure reveals legislative fissures 
Early the morning of May 7, a Thursday, a motley crew of senior Senate Republicans and their Democratic counterparts, disregarding a chorus of conflicting desires from the membership as a whole, pulled the plug on the 2020 legislative session.
Read More »Lawmaker: Virus makes need for change to sentencing laws greater than ever
This is all frustrating for Rep. Walt Blackman,R-Snowflake, one of many Arizona lawmakers who over the years have sought to amend the state’s sentencing laws -- some of the strictest in the country -- and improve prison conditions, mostly to no avail.
Read More »Ducey-backed gun restriction stuck in Senate 
Gov. Doug Ducey’s attempt to pass a law allowing a judge to order people deemed a potential threat to themselves or others to forfeit their weapons and submit to mental health evaluations is effectively dead in the Legislature.
Read More »Players in movement to remake Arizona’s criminal justice system 
Since conservatives got on board with revamping Arizona’s sentencing laws, bills to do that no longer lay unheard, not considered. And as the movement has taken hold over the past few years, a host of groups and people have made their presence known at the Legislature. Following are some of them.
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