SCOTUS Watch: Final Decisions In June
Wow, it’s June already! And you know what that means: SCOTUS Watch. June is the last month of the Supreme Court’s term, and the Roberts Court has developed a reputation for cliffhanger endings to its most controversial cases, as if it is a reality TV show. We are about to find out just how radical … Read more
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs Announces Her Bid For Governor
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs announced her bid for Governor in 2022 today. In the video announcing her bid, “We did our job,” Hobbs says. “They refused to do theirs. And there’s a lot more work to be done … When you’re under attack, some would have you believe you have two choices: fight … Read more
Why Republicans Attacked the Permanent Early Voting List: 70,000+ New Democratic Voters
Nearly 30 years ago Arizona began offering the ability for citizens to vote via an absentee ballot. In the decades since, the state has refined election laws to make voting easier for Arizonans. The majority of the state votes by mail. In the 2012 general election, 61% of Arizona voters cast an early ballot. By … Read more
Children Are Denied a Day of Recognition as Anti-Maskers Disrupt Scottsdale School Board Meeting
May 18, 2021, was supposed to be a festive day for children in the Scottsdale Unified School District. They were going to be honored for their academic and extracurricular performance at the monthly school board meeting. One student, seventh-grader Theo Joseph, was due to receive acclaim for the essay he submitted to the Phoenix Holocaust … Read more
Abortion and Gun Cases Should Ignite the Democratic Turnout in 2022
Governor Doug Ducey must be delighted with the abortion and gun-rights cases the Supreme Court will decide in June 2022, five months before the midterms. However, there is sure to be a backlash the governor doesn’t recognize. Ducey signed a bill banning abortion if the fetus has a genetic defect such as Down Syndrome. The law … Read more
Jennifer Adams Wants to Continue the Work She has Started on the Tempe City Council
Tempe City Councilwoman Jennifer Adams is seeking a second four-year term on the Tempe City Council. A civil and public servant for 40 years with ties to various local community organizations, Councilwoman Adams would like to continue working on the projects she specialized in her first term. Those include: Increasing affordable housing opportunities for the … Read more
American Democracy Is Under Assault, But Kyrsten Sinema Missed The Vote For ‘A Personal Family Matter’?
Our prima donna senator emerged from hiding in her chicken bunker since last Friday, speaking to reporters Tuesday in Tucson — after touring migrant facilities with the anti-immigrant Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, earlier in the day — Sinema had a short response when asked why she missed the vote on the January 6 Commission. Sinema on why she skipped … Read more
Texas Democrats Cause ‘Good Trouble’ To Block Most Extreme Jim Crow 2.0 Voter Suppression Bill In The Nation
Late on Sunday night, on a Memorial Day weekend when most Americans were distracted, the Texas Lege tried to pass the most anti-democratic, Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression bill in the nation. EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder. (Texas is already the most difficult state in the country to vote, it is … Read more
