Arizona’s Kris Mayes is one of 14 attorneys general behind a new legal filing that aims to protect DACA recipients’ access to federally funded health insurance.
The attorneys general filed a motion to intervene in a case over whether immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — also known as Dreamers — should be able to purchase health care through the Affordable Care Act.
That access was opened to Dreamers for the first time last year. But in a suit filed against the Biden administration, Kansas and other GOP-led states argue the change violates procedural statutes around who is eligible for federally funded assistance.
Mayes says her new filing comes as the incoming Trump administration is expected to halt efforts to defend the coverage. She says access to affordable health care is an essential lifeline for thousands, and denying Dreamers that ability hurts public health and drives up costs elsewhere.
In a unanimous ruling Friday, a federal appeals court partially upheld a lower court ruling declaring the DACA program unlawful, but stopped short of allowing the ruling to go into effect outside Texas. The future of the program will likely be decided now at the Supreme Court.
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The actions of the Trump administration have led a lot of people to make a lot of comparisons to other presidencies, or periods of history. -
State lawmakers are facing a few deadlines as they come back to the Capitol this week. June 30 is the end of the fiscal year, so they need to have a new budget in place by then. Before that, though, on June 24, is the deadline for Arizona voters to submit arguments for and against ballot measures. -
The bill, which would prohibit homeowner associations from banning certain dogs based on breed, size or weight, stalled when it was assigned to the Senate Government Committee, even though it has majority Republican support. -
A federal judge has scheduled oral arguments for June 26 on a Maricopa County request to end federal oversight of the Sheriff’s Office. -
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed into law a bill that will regulate alternative nicotine products like vapes. The bill requires distributors to be authorized by the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control.
