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Commission sends Hobbs candidates for her Supreme Court …
Dec 9, 2024 · Timmer said she encouraged commissioners to take the totality of a candidates’ application. “I’ve had experiences when I chaired the Pima County and Maricopa County commissions that people could get just so wowed by a terrific interview they would forget to look at their whole body of work and application and experience level,” Timmer said.
Corp Comm upholds contentious APS solar charge
Dec 17, 2024 · The Arizona Corporation Commission reaffirmed its decision to allow Arizona Public Service to impose a grid access charge on customers who use residential solar energy, despite solar advocates calling the charge discriminatory. Commissioners voted three to one to uphold the charge, known as a “GAC ...
Arizona Supreme Court blocks Kari Lake’s final appeal to overturn …
Nov 10, 2024 · Kari Lake is not going to be the governor of Arizona – at least not unless she runs again in 2026 and wins. Without comment the Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday turned away her last-ditch effort in her bid to argue that she, and not Katie Hobbs, was elected governor in 2022. That leaves undisturbed
Judges face increased scrutiny in upcoming election
Sep 23, 2024 · Johnson’s no-vote recommendation is based on her September 2022 ruling lifting an injunction on the 1864 abortion ban after the reversal of Roe v. Wade and finding the all-out ban to take precedence over the 15-week limit passed by the Legislature.. Gavel Watch advised against retaining Paton as her husband, Jonathan Paton, served on the Appellate Court Judicial Nominating Commission at the ...
Arizona election results delayed after a long ballot and a court …
Nov 6, 2024 · In Maricopa County, officials estimated on Tuesday night that they still had about 700,000 early ballots to process. Typically, in the first round of results at 8 p.m. on Tuesday night, the county releases the results from all early ballots cast up to the Friday before Election Day.
Hobbs focused on Arizona issues, declines to join Dem governors ...
Nov 14, 2024 · “We’ll continue to make the case to the federal government of how they can support real border security in Arizona,” she said. But she would not say what steps she would take to prevent people from being deported in Arizona, which the incoming president said he will order on Day One of his administration in January.
Dem losses lead Fontes to weigh primary challenge for Hobbs in …
Nov 19, 2024 · The new Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, second from left, shakes hands with new Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, right, as Hobbs' husband Patrick Goodman, left, looks on after an oath of office ceremony at the state Capitol in …
Arizona lawmakers must prioritize progress over partisan agendas …
Dec 9, 2024 · What’s next? Before we can answer that, we need to take stock of what we had and did not have in place in 2024. We had the excitement! We had a sense of shifting momentum in Arizona, and we had significant funding focused on flipping the Legislature from a Republican majority to a Democratic majority.. We had the message to the people of Arizona: “Our plans for affordability will give you ...
Judicial retention becomes political in 2024
Dec 30, 2024 · The measure headed to the ballot as campaigns around the 2024 judicial retention election started to take shape. Though some voting guides advocated against retaining a handful of Superior Court judges, most of the attention, and money, coalesced around Justices Clint Bolick and Kathryn King, given their earlier ruling upholding the 1864 abortion ban.