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Republicans ram through Arizona budget two days after unveiling it, setting up showdown with Hobbs
Two days after introducing their nearly $18 billion state budget, Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives pushed through a party-line vote to approve it.
The Republican proposal includes about $800 million less in spending than...
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AG rejects GOP complaint against Phoenix policy, says it can refuse to help ICE
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says Phoenix can legally prohibit federal agents from using city property to carry out immigration raids because nothing in either state or federal law obligates local officials to help enforce immigration law.
“As a matter of federal law, localities like cities and counties can refuse cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts, unless a specific statute...
A static display by Tower Solutions Inc. at the 2024 Border Expo in El Paso, Texas, shows off the company’s mobile camera technology. (Photo by Dugan Meyer)
Border Security Expo returns to Phoenix with Trump officials and military-grade tech on display
Phoenix will once again host a trade show where Trump administration immigration officials will mingle with military and tech companies bidding for government border contracts...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 29, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)
Supreme Court guts key section of Voting Rights Act, unleashing a nationwide redistricting war
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office on Monday invoked an upcoming landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on the role of race in drawing congressional districts to justify the Republican’s proposed gerrymander.
“The use of race in redistricting should never happen,” the governor’s general counsel, David Axelman, wrote in a memo unveiling a map that aims to hand Republicans...
Rev. Bernard LaFayette (center, in wheelchair and cloth cap) holds his wife Kate’s hand as they are wheeled over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 9, 2025 as part of 60th anniversary commemorations of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 attack on peaceful civil rights protestors that led to the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
Congressional Black Caucus members condemn Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision gutting the federal Voting Rights Act sent Black Democrats in the U.S. House reeling on Wednesday, as they confronted a new reality where Republicans could gerrymander some of them out of office and limit the ability of Black voters to elect candidates in the future.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus vowed to fight the court’s decision. They demanded fresh votes on federal voting rights legislation that has languished...
Demonstrators chant and hold signs outside the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. The court heard arguments challenging the Department of Homeland Secuirty’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Haiti and Syria. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)
Supreme Court signals it will let Trump strip legal protections from 350,000 Haitians
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised Wednesday to uphold the Trump administration’s efforts to end temporary legal protections for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians.
The decision could also affect several other lawsuits related to what is known as Temporary Protected Status that are pending in lower courts. The suits challenge...
Labor unions and other supporters of an income tax on millionaire earners rallied at the Washington state Capitol in Olympia in February. A growing number of liberal states are considering raising taxes on their wealthiest residents. (Photo by Bill Lucia/Washington State Standard)
Millionaire taxes gain steam as states face budget crunches
While the idea of a special tax on millionaires is hotly debated across the country, Maine state Rep. Cheryl Golek characterized her state’s new tax as a modest and reasonable step toward fairness.
That’s because, she said, working- and middle-class households in Maine — including teachers, firefighters and nurses — are paying effective state income tax rates similar to or higher than those of the highest earners...
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