Yassamin Ansari

(UPDATED)Arizona Congressional and House Candidate Reaction to Today’s Supreme Court Ruling Outlawing Reproductive Freedom

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The road to a Democratically controlled House of Representatives in Washington D.C. may go through Arizona thanks to today’s Arizona Supreme Court ruling outlawing women’s reproductive freedom. Surprisingly, there is maybe bipartisan agreement among Democrats and Republicans at the House level that the Arizona State Supreme Court overreached in invalidating a 2022 Republican ban on … Read more

Arizona Democratic Reaction to Today’s State Supreme Court Hearing on Reproductive Freedom

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Following the Handmaid’s Tales events in Texas where a pregnant woman, before the Texas Supreme Court ruled against her, had to journey to another state to end her pregnancy for potentially life-saving health reasons and the determination that the unborn child would live only days after birth, the Arizona State Supreme Court heard arguments on … Read more

National and Arizona Reaction to the Pause between Israel and Hamas

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Yesterday, after a series of marathon negotiations over the last month that had numerous intermissions, Israel and Hamas concluded a four-day pause in the fighting that includes the release of 50 of the 230 hostages the terrorist group, during its unprovoked attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, kidnapped including young children, one of them … Read more

Arizona Leaders Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day

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Dear Readers Here is a sampling of how some of Arizona’s leaders celebrated Indigenous People’s Day on October 10, 2023. “Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It is a day to recognize the sovereignty and resilience of indigenous peoples. The City of Tucson is located on the traditional lands that have been stewarded by the Tohono … Read more