Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap speaks at a Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Phoenix. On Friday, May 22, 2026, Heap referred 207 voters who he claims are noncitizens to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office after weeks of sparring. (Sasha Hupka/Votebeat)
Justin Heap refers alleged noncitizen voters to AG’s office after strongly worded letters
After weeks of sparring with state prosecutors, Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap referred potential noncitizens that he claims to have found on the county’s voter roll to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office on Friday.
His referral comes after the attorney general’s office suggested it could take legal action against Heap unless he...
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Arizona added jobs in April, but its employment rate has been stuck at 2024 levels for 2 years
After seven months of lower employment rates than last year, Arizona’s job market finally saw positive growth in April, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A recent report from the Common Sense Institute, a conservative economic think tank, analyzed federal data and found that Arizona’s inability to...
Protestors march in Selma, Alabama as part of the All Roads Lead to the South rally on May 16, 2026. A three-judge federal panel Tuesday blocked Alabama’s use of a congressional map it had previously ruled racially discriminatory. (Andi Rice for Alabama Reflector)
Federal judges block Alabama’s racially discriminatory congressional map, order remedial districts
A three-judge panel on Tuesday morning blocked Alabama from using a 2023 congressional map the panel ruled racially discriminatory and ordered the state to use a remedial map aimed at giving Black Alabamians a chance to elect their preferred leaders.
The order comes almost a month after the U.S. Supreme Court substantially weakened...
Rooftop guards stand in October 2025 at the Broadview immigration detention center in Illinois, which was accused in a lawsuit of pressuring immigrants to sign voluntary departure papers during detention in squalid conditions. (Photo by Andrew Adams/Capitol News Illinois)
Voluntary departures spike as immigrants face squalid detention, pressure to leave
A surge in voluntary departure agreements in immigration courts is raising concerns that Trump administration tactics are unfairly pressuring immigrants into leaving the United States, even if they have a legal right to stay.
Voluntary departures during the second Trump administration reached...
Vice President JD Vance, center, arrives at a roundtable anti-fraud meeting with Republican attorneys general in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus on May 26, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Democratic state AGs say their staff excluded from Vance anti-fraud meeting
WASHINGTON — A handful of Democratic state attorneys general said Tuesday that expert officials from their offices were denied access to a major White House anti-fraud meeting convened by Vice President JD Vance and attended by Republican AGs.
Two dozen Democratic attorneys general had earlier declined invitations for their own attendance at...
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