SCOTUS Rejects Trump’s Appeal Over January 6 Committee Subpoena For Archives Documents
Update to Trump Makes Desperate Appeal To U.S. Supreme Court To Block The National Archives From Producing Documents To The January 6 Committee. CNN reports, Supreme Court officially ends Trump’s recent legal fight to block document turnover to January 6 probe: The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it will not take up former President … Read more
Help Put Democrats on the Ballot for AZ Corporation Commission
We need Democrats on the ballot at every level of Arizona’s government. We should and must contest for every race, every office, in every district. One of the lesser-known, but vastly important offices in Arizona government are five commissioners of the Arizona Corporation Commission – the fourth branch of our Arizona government. Today I’m asking … Read more
New Housing Units Under Construction At Highest Level In Almost 50 Years
Update to Institutional Investors Buying Up Properties Are Putting Inflationary Pressure On Rents And Home Prices. Some good news (maybe) today. Axios reports America’s housing boom is also a backlog: America doesn’t have enough homes for all the people who want to buy them. So the construction sector is getting busy — or at least … Read more
Worst Person in Arizona: AZ Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita
This week’s worst person in Arizona is current Arizona Senator, likely hopeless candidate for Secretary of State, and definitely creepy sex pest, Michelle Ugenti-Rita. While explaining her inexplicable vote to pointlessly deprive our children of over a billion dollars in school funding, she called public education supporters (mainly teachers) watching from the gallery “educational terrorists”. Never … Read more
BREAKING: #AZFiscalCliff Avoided! AEL Cap Waived by Senate for 2022!
Breaking news, the Senate just passed HCR2039 in this first day of crossover week. This is excellent news, but, of course, it only waives the cap for this year, and this issue will probably arise again next year. I’ll update this post as more information becomes available. For now, just be aware that the AZGOP … Read more
Financial Doomsday for Arizona Schools Averted: Arizona State Senate Joins the House and Passes a Suspension of the School Budget Cap
A couple of hours after educators and activists held an event at the State Capitol sponsored by the Arizona Education Association (AEA,) the State Senate, in a 23 to 6 vote, approved the suspension of the State Expenditure Cap on the Grand Canyon State’s public schools. A week after being one Republican short of getting … Read more
Federal Judge Rejects Dismissal of Lawsuits Against Donald Trump Alleging A Violation Of The Reconstruction-Era Ku Klux Klan Act
Completing the trifecta of a bad week in court in last week, a federal judge once again rejected Donald Trump’s authoritarian claim of absolute immunity, and will allow three lawsuits to proceed against him for inciting a violent seditious insurrection on January 6, 2021, a violation of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act, which bars violent … Read more
