The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been on the Republican hit list since it was formed in 2011. The reason. It regulates banks, lenders, and credit card companies. It saves people money. Thanks to its investigatorial oversight of financial institutions and uncovering of improprieties, $20 billion has been returned to the American Consumer. Of course, … Read more
Wonder why they would want to do this? On February 10, The Musk/Trump/Vance Administration have put the 17 staffers at the National Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) entrusted with ensuring election security on leave. On February 14, with virtually no notice, they fired another 130 members of the division on its weekend purge of … Read more
The way Republicans played the voucher game was a first clue here. When Arizonans overwhelmingly rejected the Republican desire to expand private school voucher-Empowerment Scholarship Accounts at the ballot box in 2018, the Doug Ducey Administration and their Anti-Public School Republican allies in the State Legislature went around the will of the people and passed … Read more
Judge Tanya Chutkan, the one who would have presided over Donald Trump’s federal trial for his role in the January 6, 2021 Domestic Insurrection at the United States Capitol had he lost last November, dealt a set back to 14 State Democratic Attorney Generals today (February 18, 2025,) including Arizona’s Kris Mayes, by refusing, for … Read more
No surprise here. After warning Arizona Legislative Republicans that she would not support their version of speeding up election results that would do away with the State Active Early Voting List (AEVL) and deprive voters of the ability to drop off their ballots on Election Day, Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed HB2703 that passed the … Read more