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James Soto

Mar 4, 2026

GOP leaders appeal judge’s ruling on transgender birth certificates

Key Points: Judge rules law requiring surgery for birth certificate change unlawful Ruling requires health department to recognize doctors’ statements The reason: Unamended birth certificates could lead to forced privacy […]

A medical professional stamps a newborn baby's foot onto an official birth record.
Oct 22, 2025

Republicans question AG’s defense of transgender birth certificate law

Key Points: Top GOP lawmakers want to appeal federal court ruling on transgender birth certificates Judge James Soto voided state law requiring surgery for amended birth certificates Arizona law bars […]

Jan 29, 2014

Nominees to six vacant Arizona judgeships get long-stalled hearings

Months of waiting – and more than two years in one case – were over in less than two hours Tuesday when a Senate committee breezed through nomination hearings for six Arizona judicial nominees.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., has agreed to let hearings proceed on five of the six people nominated to vacant federal judgeships in Arizona. The state’s senior senator, John McCain, right, had agreed last fall to allow the hearings. (Cronkite News Service photo by Connor Radnovich)
Jan 15, 2014

Flake agrees to allow hearing on stalled federal judicial nominees for Arizona

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., has lifted a block on five of six judicial nominees to the federal court in Arizona, where the American Bar Association has said vacancies are “dramatically worse” than in other states.

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