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The attorney general, major cases, rulings, and constitutional fights.
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A reported federal contract lapse left more than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children without lawyers in deportation proceedings. The administration's authority is clear. The remedy is administrative. The costs and outcomes are undisclosed.
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WASHINGTON — More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal services after it let a longstanding contract with a nonprofit expire. Without legal representation, fewer than 10% of...
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Legal Fight Tests Legislature’s Plan to Neutralize Prop. 212
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As new federal asylum rules take effect and Congress stalls on TPS, Arizona's attorney general race will decide which multistate coalitions the state joins and what remedies it seeks in court.
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Arizona's high court defers to churches on what counts as a "confession," a federal judge keeps Medicaid work rules on track for January, and a D.C. vandalism case tests grand-jury secrecy against a defendant's damages challenge.
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ASU reporters were told in three Arizona immigration courts that public attendance requires a judge's approval, clashing with federal guidance. Lawsuits in D.C. and New York now test how far courts can go in closing the doors.
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States will have to meet a Jan. 1 deadline to implement new Medicaid work requirements, after a federal judge denied 25 Democratic-led states’ request to pause implementation of the rule. The broad tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed last summer, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, requires states that...
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The Arizona Supreme Court sided with religious leaders this week who argued the state’s clergy-penitent privilege law shielded them from reporting child sexual abuse to authorities. And in declaring that any intervention by the courts would violate the First Amendment, the justices made clear they don’t think any...
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The race for Arizona Attorney General will not only determine the state’s next top lawyer, but also which side of the nation’s escalating fights with the White House and corporate America the state joins. The post Multistate litigation a driving force in federal policy first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen Wednesday tried to advance in the Senate a bill that would create a legal pathway for immigrants with Temporary Protected Status. However, his request for unanimous consent, a way to expedite legislation in the chamber, was blocked by Missouri Republican...
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WASHINGTON — Federal asylum officers can deny interviews to asylum seekers and send them immediately to an immigration judge, speeding up deportation proceedings, under a rule U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published Tuesday. The rule, which takes effect immediately, will allow USCIS, a Department of...
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WASHINGTON — Attorneys representing the former Olympic canoeist charged with damaging part of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have asked the judge in the case to release more information from the grand jury. David Hearn’s legal team wrote in a motion that “the Government’s sole grand-jury witness on damages...
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Since President Donald Trump has gutted much of the federal government’s consumer protection work, state attorneys general are increasingly left to fight high prices and investigate businesses themselves. Consumer protection work, long a growing focus of state AGs from both parties, has ramped up considerably more...
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A federal judge in Virginia ruled Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not sufficiently justify restrictions imposed in 2023 on a drug used to terminate early pregnancies, adding another layer of complexity to a string of legal cases with opposing goals that could affect future abortion access....
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Arizona Mirror says all three women on Arizona's death row faced a "lockdown limbo" this month. With a cohort of three, prison officials can and should publish the dates, reasons, services affected, and durations. Show the log and the ratios, not just the rhetoric.
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Three people who observed federal immigration enforcement during the Trump administration’s sometimes-violent surge said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday the Department of Homeland Security illegally recorded them and revoked their status in the department’s trusted traveler programs. The suit, filed in the...
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Doctors and progressive groups are pressing abortion and health care access into the center of Arizona's governor's race. In a contest rated Lean Democrat, the real test will be which candidate can deliver durable, court-tested policy rather than injunction bait.
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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says it’s too soon for a lawsuit to be filed against a 2024 law that would allow local police officers to arrest unauthorized immigrants because no one has been arrested under it yet. Earlier this month, the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, a legal nonprofit that...
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Judicial Watch sues Gov. Katie Hobbs over records for her ICE-rights website as a Maricopa County justice of the peace wins a primary under a misconduct cloud, putting transparency and accountability on the line.
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The Trump administration claimed a rare court victory for its embattled immigration detention policy when an appeals court, covering three states with large detention centers, agreed to stay court rulings that freed three Texas immigrants during an appeal. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a terse July 21...
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Andy Biggs clinched the GOP gubernatorial nomination while Warren Petersen opened a sizable lead in the Republican attorney general race, sharpening a November choice over Arizona's litigation posture under Democratic incumbents Katie Hobbs and Kris Mayes.
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Congressman Andy Biggs emerged as one of the big winners Tuesday night as Arizona Republicans chose nominees to face Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes in November. The post Biggs, Petersen declare victory in GOP governor, AG primaries first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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An Arizona congressional candidate's lawsuit over unlabeled AI campaign images arrives as 31 states test new deepfake laws, with courts weighing authority, remedies and First Amendment limits amid uneven enforcement.
