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AG: Parents can take schools to court over quarantine
If your child is sent home to quarantine when school resumes because of possible exposure to Covid, you have the right to challenge that in court.
GOP glimpse into election law fights
Republican lawmakers who met December 13 to discuss allegations of voter fraud in Pima County during the 2020 presidential election provided a glimpse at what some of the policy battles in next year’s legislative session could look like.
GOP lawmakers rally support for special session
GOP lawmakers blamed Democrats on December 7 for blocking a special session to pass a law to ban vaccine mandates.
Tucson under gun again for vaccine mandate
Tucson again faces a possible financial penalty for its vaccine mandate one day after a senator dropped his request to investigate the city.
Townsend to lead Senate government committee
One of the Legislature’s most vocal champions of the partisan Senate audit and a supporter of efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s narrow win in Arizona has been named the chairwoman of the Senate Government Committee.
Senate panel chair hot seat in 2022
Some conservatives who want to see the Legislature take a harder line on election issues are hoping Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, who is the Government Committee’s vice chairwoman, be appointed to lead it.
In their court
Republican lawmakers will likely use results of the partisan Senate audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County as a blueprint for changes to voting procedures and administration.
Brnovich to probe Maricopa County’s 2020 election
Attorney General Mark Brnovich is taking up Senate President Karen Fann on her request for an investigation into the findings of the Cyber Ninjas’ audit report.
Ethics committee might investigate Navarrete
State Sen. Tony Navarrete, who has yet to resign several days after he was charged with multiple felony child sex crimes, now faces a potential Senate ethics investigation and additional allegations of sexual harassment.
‘Why don’t you listen to what I have to say?’
The crowd’s treatment of her raised the question of whether the Arizona Republican Party is doomed in the 2022 general election if this crowd was going to turn on one of the most conservative lawmakers in the state
Crowd’s treatment of Ugenti-Rita heightens Senate discord
The unfriendly crowd Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita encountered at a Trump rally July 24 may prove problematic for her secretary of state run, but what happened after may complicate the 2022 legislative session.
Audit stirs dissension among GOP senators
In letting the Senate’s audit drag on as auditors demand more subpoenaed materials, Senate President Karen Fann has managed to delay a fight within her caucus over how to handle the eventual results.
