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The head of civil rights who delivered the Phoenix report last year has been replaced by a Trump-appointed and Senate-confirmed official sworn in early this month.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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Former Republican lawmaker David Marshall was sworn in as the new Navajo County recorder on Tuesday despite concerns he is ineligible for the job. -
Gov. Katie Hobbs is in a standoff with Republican lawmakers, refusing to sign legislation until they send her a budget proposal. So far, they don’t have one prepared. -
City staff have recommended the City Council to adopt the trash collection rate increase, saying the trash collection division faces a $20 million budget shortfall. -
They're either more affordable homes or they're junk houses. That’s the basic breakdown of a proposal awaiting a vote in the Arizona House after barely passing the Senate that would upend decades of municipal design standards builders are required to follow to develop new housing tracts across the state. -
The closure, which applies to the trail’s southernmost mile, will likely last through the end of 2027, according to the Arizona Trail Association, a Tucson-based nonprofit.
