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Advocacy groups sue to kick GOP’s controversial last-minute referrals off the ballot
To avoid the governor’s veto stamp and enshrine their policies in the Arizona Constitution, Republican lawmakers sent some of their most controversial proposals to voters. Now they’re facing down lawsuits as advocacy groups fight to keep the issues off of the November ballot.
Republicans put 10 measures on this year’s ballot, giving voters a chance to weigh in on...
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks to reporters on June 1, 2026. Mayes joined 24 other Democratic-led states June 29 to sue the Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Arizona joins Democratic-led states to sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements
Twenty-five Democratic-led states plus the District of Columbia have sued the Trump administration over its new work requirements for people who get their health insurance through Medicaid.
At issue is a “medically frail” designation that the states say is too narrow and will make it too difficult for ill and disabled people to...
Protesters held a rally on protecting birthright citizenship outside the U.S. Supreme Court as President Donald Trump attended oral arguments on April 1, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)
US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump order
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s attempt to redefine the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.
In the decision, a majority of the justices upheld the country’s long understanding of automatic citizenship by birth on American soil, regardless of...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 29, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)
US Supreme Court upholds transgender athlete bans in Idaho, West Virginia
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday kept in place state laws banning transgender athletes from participating on women’s and girls’ sports teams.
The decision stems from challenges to bans in Idaho and West Virginia and marks a major setback for transgender rights across...
A detainee stands silhouetted in a window of the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, N.J., on May 28, 2026. Many federal judges are freeing immigrants held under a mandatory detention policy. (Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)
Flouting Trump policy, federal judges are freeing immigrants from mandatory detention
Gilberto Pacheco was driving to work for a construction job in California when he was pulled over in what court papers called a “traffic stop” in January. He was not accused of any crime, not even a traffic infraction, but he was imprisoned without bond for months because he arrived illegally in the United States more than 30 years ago from Mexico.
Cases like that of Pacheco, who has applied for legal status through three...
White House budget director Russell Vought speaks with reporters inside the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
White House budget director advocates more funding for own agency, cuts for others
WASHINGTON — White House budget director Russ Vought testified before a U.S. House panel Tuesday that his agency needs lawmakers to increase its annual budget, even though he hasn’t spent much of the $100 million Republicans approved in their “big, beautiful” law.
That earlier funding, he said, is intended to help the agency keep track of fraud throughout the federal government and to...
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