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Initiative to stomp out school choice announced: Don’t Let Red Tape Smother Arizona’s Successful Universal School Choice Promise.

Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap scored two major court victories. First, the judge ruled he can retain outside counsel pro bono without County Attorney approval. Second, a TRO blocked the BOS subpoenas targeting his staff as potential retaliation. BOS defies Judge Blaney's TRO by scheduling Feb 9 testimony session anyway. Order to Show Cause hearing set for Feb 11 at 9:00 a.m. to address the defiance.

SAVE America and MEGA Acts require voter ID and citizenship proof, while the Abe Firewall bans ranked-choice voting and foreign-language ballots.

The Arizona State Senate passed a non-binding resolution urging Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes to resign over her televised comments suggesting that Arizonans could legally use lethal force against ICE agents under the state's Stand Your Ground law if they reasonably feared for their lives. Republicans criticized the remarks as reckless and inflammatory, while Mayes defended them as an accurate explanation of existing law amid concerns about aggressive federal immigra