Senate Republicans have a new scheme to overturn Arizona’s elections

Just when it seems safe to assume that our leaders have run out of many creative ways to overturn future election results they don’t like, they undermine democracy. I come up with a new plan to make it happen. That is, an automatic redo of an election that had to wait in line for over […]

Republicans led by Ohio’s Jim Jordan survey Arizona’s border woes

YUMA, Arizona — Newly formed House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan wrapped up a two-day tour of Yuma, Arizona, Thursday on how illegal immigration is straining its community services. A public hearing was held at the city council. Yuma County Sheriff Leon N. Wilmot told a standing crowd that U.S. Border Patrol was concerned His […]

Kevin McCarthy and MAGA Republicans rally around Trump ahead of possible indictment

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican California, and several MAGA Republicans rallied around Donald Trump on Saturday ahead of a possible indictment of the former president by a Manhattan grand jury. In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said: predicted he would be arrested on Tuesday He called on his supporters to […]

RNC, Arizona GOP sue Maricopa County Republicans over election laws

The Arizona Republican Party and the Republican National Committee (RNC) sued Maricopa County officials this week, alleging the county violated election law over the staffing of poll workers during the 2022 primary. of claim for litigation More Democrats (857) worked as poll workers at Maricopa County vote centers than Republicans (712) during the early August […]

Judiciary Republicans Gavel in Second Hearing on ‘Biden Border Crisis’ From Yuma, Arizona

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) gave a thumbs-up during the panel’s second hearing Feb. 23 from Yuma, Arizona, over what lawmakers dubbed the “Biden Border Crisis.” . Republicans have long opposed President Joe Biden’s policies on the U.S.-Mexico border, where illegal immigration rates have reached unprecedented levels. The border is a key area […]

Republicans on House Judiciary Committee blame Biden, Democrats for ‘border crisis’

Yuma, Arizona (border report) — Yuma City Hall invited members of the House Judiciary Committee for a forum on immigration and borders. The event was called “Biden Border Crisis: Part II.” It has pledged to investigate Homeland Security’s activities on the southwest border. How Biden’s asylum rules will affect immigrants compared to Trump’s Rep. Jim […]

Watch live: House Republicans hold field hearing on the southern border from Arizona

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio, and other Republican committee members are holding their latest hearings on Thursday at the southern border, titled “The Biden Border Crisis.” The session will take place at City Hall in Yuma, Arizona, approximately five miles east of the Colorado River. The Colorado River loosely follows a short stretch […]

Senate Republicans put Hobbs’ choice to lead Administration Dept on hold | State

Elizabeth Alvarado Thorson, Governor Katie Hobbs’ nominee for Arizona’s Executive Director, testified before the Senate Nominating Committee on February 20.Screenshot by Arizona Legislature/azleg.gov The nomination of Gov. Katie Hobbs, who heads the state’s largest agency, after the top Republican congressman said the candidate didn’t speak “honestly and honestly” to the state’s Senate nominating committee after […]

Indiana Republicans Want Schoolteachers to Go to Gun School

(Permanent accompaniment to this post) A semi-regular weekly survey of what’s going on in some states where as we know the real work of government is going on and people are crazy and times are changing is. We begin in Arizona with a wonderful story about indigenous people who are bringing the desert to life […]