As Rep. Matt Gress, R-Phoenix, speaks to reporters, on the floor of the House of Representatives on April 10, 2024, Reps. Analise Ortiz (in red) and Oscar De Los Santos (wearing a green tie) and other Democratic lawmakers looked on and chastised him. Gress had earlier unsuccessfully tried to force a vote on a bill to repeal the 1864 near-total abortion ban that the Arizona Supreme Court said needs to be enforced a day earlier. Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez | Arizona Mirror On the same day that the Arizona House of Representatives voted to repeal an abortion ban from the 19th Century, a trio o ..read more

Arizona's 11 fake electors sign a document in Phoenix on Dec. 14 2020, falsely claiming that they were the state's electors and that Donald Trump won the presidential election in Arizona. Screenshot via AZGOP Attorney General Kris Mayes has released the names of five more people who were indicted by a grand jury for the part they played in Arizona’s 2020 fake elector scheme to keep former President Donald Trump in the White House.  Mayes announced on April 24 that a grand jury had indicted 18 people, including all 11 fake electors, for their actions related to the fake elector plot. But ..read more

Tribal leaders listen to Gov. Katie Hobbs deliver the first ever Indian Nations & Tribes State of the State Address inside the Steele Auditorium at the Heard Museum on Jan. 10, 2024. Photo by Shondiin Silversmith | Arizona Mirror The fate of the Governor’s Office of Tribal Relations is unclear after Senate Republicans refused to take up a bill allowing the office to continue operating after June that had received bipartisan backing in the House of Representatives.  Because Sen. Jake Hoffman, the Republican chairman of the Senate Government Committee, didn’t allow his committee to con ..read more

Photos by Caitlin Sievers & Gloria Rebecca Gomez | Arizona Mirror Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes, both staunch reproductive rights advocates who ran on promises to protect abortion access, unveiled a website on Thursday that includes information on Arizona’s changing abortion laws and connects women seeking a procedure with providers.  The website’s launch follows a month of turmoil in the political arena and uncertainty for healthcare providers across the state after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled to reinstate a near-total abortion ban from 1864.  GET THE ..read more

The Arizona Secretary of State's Office has forwarded suspicions of signature forgery to the Attorney General for the obvious forgery of voter signatures on a petition to get Republican Rep. Michele Peña on the 2024 primary ballot. Petition circulator Richard (Ricky) Guthridge, of Tucson, is responsible for gathering the signatures. The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office has referred 13 cases of potential candidate petition signature fraud to the attorney general for investigation, including allegations that Republican Rep. Austin Smith personally forged voter signatures.  The Secretary ..read more

Supporters of President Donald Trump demonstrate at a "Stop the Steal" rally in front of the Maricopa County Elections Department office on Nov. 7, 2020. The protesters believed unfounded allegations pushed by Trump and other Republican officials and activists that Joe Biden was elected president through cheating or malfeasance, assertions that have been rejected by elections officials in Arizona and across the country, and also by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which concluded that there "is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way ..read more

Eli Crane at a Republican election campaign event on Nov. 7, 2022. Photo by Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 An Arizona Republican congressman has paid nearly $150,000 to a fundraising consultant who was a rising star in GOP campaign circles until 2016, when she was arrested after police found an active meth lab at her home.  U.S. Rep. Eli Crane has paid Emily Pitha more than $40,000 for “fundraising consulting” for his 2024 reelection bid, according to campaign finance filings. Since Crane first ran for Congress in 2022, he has paid Pitha over $146,000.  GET THE MO ..read more

An anti-Trump "kangaroo court" posed outside the U.S. Supreme Court while Trump v. United States was argued inside. Photo by Jane Norman | States Newsroom WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Thursday of former President Donald Trump’s argument he is immune from criminal charges that he tried to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. But conservatives who dominate the court appeared open to returning key questions to a trial court, possibly delaying Trump’s prosecution beyond the November election — and essentially assisting the former president as he fights legal challeng ..read more

Glen Canyon Dam holds back the waters of Lake Powell, a sprawling recreational reservoir that provides storage and power for residents along the Colorado River. Photo by Brad Poole | Courthouse News (CN) — Conservationists lost an appeal to the 9th Circuit on Wednesday as they attempted to force the federal government to reconsider climate change studies in managing the Glen Canyon Dam and Colorado River. Save the Colorado, Living River and the Center for Biological Diversity initially asked the U.S. Department of the Interior to consider emerging climate science and the severe potential of c ..read more

Arizona's 11 fake electors sign a document in Phoenix on Dec. 14 2020, falsely claiming that they were the state's electors and that Donald Trump won the presidential election in Arizona. Screenshot via AZGOP A grand jury has indicted 18 people, including two Arizona state senators and the former head of the Arizona Republican Party, in a fake elector scheme that aimed to install Donald Trump as the president after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.  The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has not released the names of everyone who was indicted, but all 11 fake electors were charged ..read more