Lynn Shapiro

Lynn Shapiro passed away on Oct. 31, 2022. She was a former reporter for the American Legal News and the Blog for Arizona. In her writing career, she covered gun laws, LGBT rights, cannabis litigation, Obamacare, and obstruction of justice for many publications, including Newsweek. Before writing about law and politics, Lynn wrote about medicine and prior to that, Wall Street. Lynn was a graduate of Hampshire College, and studied journalism at the University of Massachusetts. She lived in New York City.

How to Find Help for Tenants Facing Eviction

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Video editing by Anne Simmons. As the June 30 termination looms for the federal eviction moratorium, Marcos Ysmael, the Pima Country Housing Program manager, is acting to rescue Arizonians from eviction. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) might extend the moratorium on COVID-related evictions beyond June 30, he told Democrats of Greater Tucson … Read more

Texas and Arizona Sue Biden over Immigration “Crisis”

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Trump puppets, Texas Attorneys General Tom Paxton and Arizona’s Mark Brnovich, are suing the Biden Administration over its immigration procedures, claiming that “Biden created the border crisis.” The two AGs are filing multiple lawsuits intended to persuade Republicans–many who voted for Biden–that Democrats are “too weak” to halt the escalating immigration crisis. On January 26, … Read more

AZ Senator Wendy Rogers Wants to Criminalize Abortion

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The Arizona legislature is busy retaliating against Democratic women who swept Joe Biden and Mark Kelly into power by passing nasty anti-abortion “trigger laws.” These proposed laws would not only ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, like the laws that have proliferated since Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation in September 2018, which remade the … Read more

Vaccine Passports are Constitutional, says University of Missouri Law Professor

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Like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, anti-maskers are livid over the coming of “vaccine passports.” They say the so-called passports would be a Big Brother control mechanism tracking their every move, while traveling or enjoying events that will no longer be super-spreaders when people are vaccinated. “The first thing to know about vaccine passports is that they’re … Read more