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The voting rights of Native Americans in Arizona are routinely suppressed by a slew of requirements and practices, such as photo ID laws and a scarcity of polling places, Navajo and Gila River leaders said Tuesday at a congressional hearing in Phoenix.
"If someone from the Navajo Nation submits a ballot on Election Day without a photo ID, they have to go through so much additional documentation for their vote to be counted," Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said.
PHOENIX (AP) - Two Arizona Democrats in Congress are calling for President Donald Trump to be impeached.
Reps. Greg Stanton and Ruben Gallego on Tuesday went far beyond their prior support for an impeachment inquiry. Both Phoenix Democrats now say Congress should impeach Trump to defend the rule of law.
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Arizona Congressman and former Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton released a statement early Tuesday afternoon calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment.
Stanton, who served as Phoenix mayor from 2012 to 2018, cited a "mountain of credible evidence" in his statement he published on his Twitter account. Stanton's statement comes just hours before Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would begin formal impeachment proceedings against the president.
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled the City of Phoenix cannot apply its LGBT-inclusive Human Rights Ordinance to penalize a local business for refusing to make custom-made invitations for a same-sex wedding, delivering a victory for groups seeking to justify anti-LGBT discrimination in the name of "religious freedom."
PHOENIX - Valley political figures reacted Monday to the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that a Phoenix business can refuse to create custom wedding invitations for same-sex couples.
WASHINGTON – The Arizona Supreme Court Monday sided with two Phoenix women who said a city law aimed at preventing discrimination would have forced them to violate their Christian faith by creating custom invitations for same-sex weddings.
A narrow majority of the court said that the religious convictions of Brush & Nib owners Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski "may seem old-fashioned, or even offensive to some," but they are still covered by the Arizona Constitution's protection of free speech.
When people across the country think about Arizona, they imagine images of the Grand Canyon and our vast deserts dotted with saguaros as nature's skyscrapers. What they don't consider is the effort that goes into protecting some of our most beautiful and important public lands.
Arizonans shouldn't have to worry about whether these natural landmarks will be around in the future. Congress has the legislative tools needed to ensure that these public lands – not just in Arizona, but across the country – are permanently protected.
WASHINGTON – Border construction near Yuma will receive almost $1.3 billion of the $3.6 billion the Defense Department said it will divert from planned military projects under the national border emergency declared in February by President Donald Trump.
Among the 127 Pentagon projects scheduled to lose funding this year for Trump's border construction push is a planned ground transport equipment building at Fort Huachuca. The Army base near Sierra Vista will lose $30 million that was budgeted for that project in fiscal 2019.
Did you know that since 1992, businesses less than a year old created an average of about two million jobs per year? According to the Kauffman Foundation, this accounts for 20 percent of gross job creation, even though they represented only eight percent of all firms.