After a flurry of cases were decided Tuesday by the Arizona Supreme Court, the November ballot is set and voters will be deciding the fate of eight different ballot measures. One result of the expedited appeals that the high court decided this week is that voters won’t have any direct say over how Arizona’s universal […]

Attorneys representing the children of a father who sexually abused them and reported that abuse to church leaders are asking  the Arizona Supreme Court to reconsider its unanimous ruling last month siding with religious leaders who argued the state’s clergy-penitent privilege law shielded them from reporting that abuse to authorities.  The justices also declared that […]

A federal judge on Wednesday said that she won’t pause her decision to turn over control of the healthcare system in Arizona prisons to an outside supervisor because it’s clear to her that doing so is the fastest — and perhaps only — way to ensure that sick and injured prisoners don’t have their constitutional […]

The Arizona Supreme Court sided with religious leaders this week who argued the state’s clergy-penitent privilege law shielded them from reporting child sexual abuse to authorities. And in declaring that any intervention by the courts would violate the First Amendment, the justices made clear they don’t think any changes to Arizona law aimed at forcing […]

A survey of voters in three battleground states, including Arizona, found that abortion remains a deciding issue in choosing which candidates to support.  Impact Research, a public opinion research company that frequently works with progressive organizations, partnered with Reproductive Freedom for All to gauge how abortion might affect how voters in Michigan, Nevada and Arizona […]