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An Arizona appeals court decision threatens to make a life-saving medicine illegal. The ACLU of Arizona filed a brief last week asking the Arizona Supreme Court to review the case and stop this from happening.

This year, Arizonans will decide between two candidates for Secretary of State with very different views on how to run our elections.

The force and behavior that Phoenix police exhibited that night still shocks me. I never expected to be treated with such violence for exercising my First Amendment rights. We were gassed and I was senselessly shot with projectiles.

In a public appearance this week at The Atlantic Festival—a conference during which leaders in technology, business, politics, and arts share ideas—Sen. Jeff Flake characterized Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s recent testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee as “sharp and partisan.” He added, “We can’t have that on the [Supreme] Court.”

The anti-transgender policy at Great Hearts was crafted, discussed, and approved in secret, then later pushed out to their campuses in an authoritarian fashion.

Arizona is placing unnecessary hurdles in front of eligible citizens before they can cast a ballot.

On the morning of June 18, when I heard the cries of children wailing and pleading to see their mothers and fathers, my heart was filled with anger and sadness. I couldn’t understand how our nation, in the name of “security,” was subjecting innocent migrant children to severe trauma.

At the Fourth Avenue Jail, families wait to hear if their loved one will have to pay bail. I sat in on three of these hearings and saw how excruciating the cash bail process can be for the entire family.

Due to a broad misunderstanding of Arizona’s flagrantly anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, David Green’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was unconstitutionally held so an officer could conduct an immigration check.