A federal judge on Friday appointed Ohio’s former prisons chief to run Arizona’s prison healthcare system, giving her the sole power to determine what the state needs to do to stop violating the constitutional rights of inmates with substandard medical care — and she set the stage for nullifying two state laws that experts have

Republican legislative leaders and Attorney General Kris Mayes are on the same side in a lawsuit challenging the state’s power to enforce immigration law, playing defense for a 2024 law that would give state judges the authority to issue deportation orders and local police officers the power to arrest migrants.  Last week, the Florence Immigrant

The Arizona Secretary of State is not required to allow public comment on new versions of the state’s elections rulebook, the state’s highest court wrote in a Friday opinion that explained an order the court issued nine months prior.  In the October order, the Arizona Supreme Court said that the state’s Election Procedures Manual, which

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened on Friday to prosecute election officials in states that don’t “participate in securing the elections” ahead of the November midterms.  Election officials who do not comply with administration directives to enhance security of voting machines and to share voter data with the federal government through the powerful Systematic Alien

Arizona’s top election official and top prosecutor both had strong words for President Donald Trump and his administration after a prime-time speech on Thursday that was filled with false claims of widespread voter fraud.  Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes bristled at the prospect of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security penalizing states that don’t