By Michael Bryan In my last post I promised to attempt to explain the issues raised in the SB1070 suit. The heart of the argument in the Fed's brief seeking an injunction of enforcement of SB1070 is that Arizona's legislation is preempted by federal immigration law. What is preemption? Preemption is a doctrine designed to … Read more
by David Safier It's something of a standoff. On the one hand, The state's high court on Tuesday upheld a 3-year-old law that lets corporations divert some of their state income taxes to help students attend private and parochial schools. Without comment, the Arizona Supreme Court rejected arguments by the Arizona Education Association and other … Read more
by David Safier If you haven't been following, two lawsuits have been filed under the guidance of the AZ Charter Schools Association. One is to equalize funding among public school districts, and the other is to get the same amount of building funds for charters as traditional public schools. The Charter Schools Association is a … Read more
By Michael Bryan According to a Federal indictment and local news outlets, a Green Valley couple, James and Karen Marshall, voted once too often in the recent Presidential election. They re-registered as permanent Arizona citizens and voted here, but also voted in their old domiciliary state of Kansas. The couple claim it was a mistake, … Read more
by David SafierYesterday I wrote about the Supreme Court decision to kick the ELL funding question back down to the federal court, and I mentioned that Howard Fischer had left an important fact out of his article in the Star: it was a 5-4 decision with the usual conservative-liberal split. Leaving that out left the … Read more