An airplane sits on the tarmac at Mesa Gateway Airport on the evening of April 9, 2026, outside of the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center, an ICE facility where detainees are temporarily housed before they are put on a plane to either be deported or moved to a different ICE facility. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Stanton, Ansari and Grijalva demand ICE answer for pepper-spraying 47 overcrowded detainees
Three Democratic members of Congress are demanding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement answer questions about the use of pepper spray on 47 detainees at a Mesa holding facility earlier this year, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Arizona Mirror.
“As Members of Congress who have conducted oversight at this facility and witnessed gravely concerning conditions, we are alarmed by...
Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller speaks outside the Arizona Senate on Jan. 12, 2026, about upcoming legislation to criminalize interference with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Protesters shouted him down, and Miller and GOP lawmakers had to retreat inside the Senate building to finish addressing the media. (Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez/Arizona Mirror)
Judge blocks Pinal County Attorney’s rogue ICE deal, says he exceeded his authority
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Friday shot down an attempt by Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller to use his office to help President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, blocking a partnership that would have turned the county attorney’s 10 investigators into de facto immigration agents.
After a nearly three-hour long hearing, Judge Michael Gordon issued his ruling from the bench, saying that Miller has no legal authority to...
Incumbent Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne answers a question during a May 14, 2026, Arizona Clean Elections Republican primary debate against challenger Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee. (Pool photo by Patrick Breen/Arizona Republic)
Kimberly Yee says Tom Horne’s voucher program is ‘complete chaos.’ Horne says Yee backed DEI.
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne and his challenger in the Republican primary, Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee, came out swinging during a Arizona Clean Elections Commission debate on Thursday.
Yee accused Horne of heading a department whose school voucher program was “complete chaos,” while Horne alleged...
A voter deposits a mail-in ballot at the drop box outside the Chester County, Pennsylvania, Government Center on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Pennsylvania Capital-Star/Peter Hall)
Trump elections order would create chaotic ‘nightmare,’ Democrats and allies tell court
WASHINGTON — Democrats and advocacy groups urged a quick rejection of President Donald Trump’s latest executive order on compiling citizenship lists and creating traceable mail-in ballots in a federal court hearing Thursday.
Lawyers for the Democratic National Committee, Democratic...
Tennessee Democrats lock arms on the Tennessee House floor in protest of a Republican redistricting vote that split up a majority-Black, majority-Democratic congressional district. Tennessee is one of several states redrawing its congressional maps in the aftermath of a recent US Supreme Court decision. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
The redistricting frenzy is scrambling the midterm elections. Here’s where things stand now.
In the past two years, a dozen states have either approved new U.S. House maps or are moving toward doing so — a highly unusual mid-decade revamp prompted by President Donald Trump and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling late last month. And the situation isn’t settled yet — even as ballots are being printed and early voting is already underway in some places. Pending litigation could scramble the situation even further...
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