An Arizona congressman, the state Senate president and chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors say the Justice Department should lay off the Phoenix Police Department.
The office of GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh says he’s working with top Trump officials to claw back a blistering civil rights report released during the Biden administration.
The head of civil rights who delivered the Phoenix report last year has been replaced by a Trump-appointed and Senate-confirmed official sworn in early this month.
The Arizona Senate president wrote to her the day before.
The board chairman wrote the attorney general this week, citing the $300 million and counting that Maricopa County has spent on federal oversight of the Sheriff’s Office.
Hamadeh wrote the head of civil rights this week, his office says. His letter accuses the Justice Department under former President Joe Biden of ignoring court-based facts for cherry-picked narratives in support of a political agenda.
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Election officials continue to count votes from Arizona’s primary election, but a number of races have already been called — and contests set for November’s general election. -
PFAS are widely-used, human-made chemicals that don’t break down naturally. Exposure has been linked to health issues, including some cancers. -
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum convened governors from the seven Western states that use the river, but their meeting does not appear to have yielded a consensus agreement. -
Before midnight, the tribal radio station KTNN — known in these parts as the “Voice of the Navajo Nation” — called the 16-candidate race. Radio host “Navajo Bob” Sandoval read the unofficial score from the 110 polling places. -
A congressionally funded program established nearly two decades ago provides legal aid for unaccompanied immigrant children.
