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Tensions escalate among Navajo leaders as Nygren finally agrees to address Navajo Nation Council

2 days ago | azmirror.com | Shondiin Silversmith

Two days after he ignored a subpoena demanding he appear before the Navajo Nation Council as it kicked off its spring legislative session, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren will deliver his State of the Navajo Nation address on Wednesday. It will be the first time that Nygren has appeared in the council chambers since January, when he cut his short and left before completing his quarterly State of the Navajo Nation address amid questions from delegates that he thought were disrespectful.
U.S. Supreme Court stops Trump from deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act, for now

5 days ago | azmirror.com | Ashley Murray

The U.S. Supreme Court early Saturday temporarily blocked a new round of deportations under the wartime Alien Enemies Act until the high court considers the case of several migrants in Texas whose lawyers say are at risk for “imminent removal.” The justices issued the one-page order just after 1 a.m. Eastern, directing the government “not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.” The order was unsigned and noted...
Hobbs vetoes Republican bill that would have brought ICE agents into Arizona schools

6 days ago | azmirror.com | Gloria Gomez

A Republican effort to boost President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign in Arizona and force schools to open their doors to ICE agents was shut down by Gov. Katie Hobbs, who wielded her veto pen to reject the plan on Friday. “Arizonans, not Washington, DC politicians, must decide what’s best for Arizona,” the Democrat wrote in her veto letter of the Arizona ICE Act.
Hobbs sides with Axon over Scottsdale voters, signs bill to cancel election challenging HQ project

6 days ago | azmirror.com | Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror April 18, 2025 Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed legislation to give law enforcement technology company Axon a carve-out in state law that will let it avoid voter review of its planned massive headquarters and housing project in north Scottsdale. Axon came to the Capitol in 2025 aiming to bar voters in every city and town in Arizona from being able to challenge zoning and development decisions.
Both sides claim victory as Arizona fetal personhood lawsuit dismissed

6 days ago | azmirror.com | Gloria Gomez

A legal challenge against an Arizona law that gives fetuses rights has been dropped, putting the law back on the books despite an overwhelming majority of voters who agreed last year to make abortion a constitutional right in the Grand Canyon State. Whether it is ever enforced, or even can be legally because of that election, remains to be seen.
Hobbs vows to veto all bills until disability funding crisis resolved

1 week ago | azmirror.com | Caitlin Sievers

Arizona’s Democratic governor has promised to veto every piece of legislation that Republicans send to her until the legislature passes a “reasonable, negotiated” funding bill to prevent the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities from going broke next month. Republicans who control both the Arizona House of Representatives and Senate responded that they’ve already introduced proposals in both legislative chambers that would get DDD through the end of the fiscal year on June 30.
Militia founder wrongly identified as ICE agent in viral window-smashing video

1 week ago | azmirror.com | Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror April 17, 2025 Social media posts have been falsely claiming that a man with connections to Arizona and far-right militias was the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who smashed a car’s window with an axe to apprehend a Guatemalan immigrant. But that man has not been hired by ICE and is currently in Oklahoma spreading conspiracy theories there.
Ciscomani urges GOP leaders to protect Medicaid despite voting for budget resolution with cuts

1 week ago | azmirror.com | Jim Small

by Jim Small, Arizona Mirror April 17, 2025 An Arizona Republican congressman who voted for a budget resolution that all but mandates cuts to Medicaid said in a letter to GOP leadership that he won’t vote for any final budget package that cuts health care spending “for vulnerable populations.”Rep.
'This is a constitutional crisis': Rep. Ansari to visit wrongfully deported man in El Salvador

1 week ago | azmirror.com | Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror April 17, 2025 Democratic U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari announced Wednesday that she is planning to travel to an El Salvador megaprison to attempt to visit a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to that country, but who the Trump administration refuses to help return to America. “Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be home in Maryland right now,” Ansari said in a press release announcing her intentions to try to visit Abrego Garcia.
GOP bill would allow sheriff’s deputies to arrest people who ignore legislative subpoenas

1 week ago | azmirror.com | Caitlin Sievers

by Caitlin Sievers, Arizona Mirror April 17, 2025 Republicans in the Arizona Legislature want to use county sheriff’s departments to force people to comply with their subpoenas, and for anyone who speaks in front of a legislative committee to do so at risk of perjury. “You shouldn’t be allowed to come down to the legislature and lie to us in the committee, which, unfortunately, far too many people do,” Sen.