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  • US top court rules voters dont need citizenship proof

    Siding with the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court Monday tossed out a provision in a Arizona state law requiring proof of citizenship for registration as a voter. With a 7-2 majority, the apex court ruled that the state's voter-approved law interfered with federal law designed to make voter registration easier. Opponents of the law saw it as an attack on vulnerable voter groups such ...

  • Tucson teen dies from injuries in May crash

    A teen died from injuries he sustained in a two-vehicle crash May 27 on the city's southeast side.Jeremy Echeandia, 17, died Sunday at University of Arizona Medical Center, said Sgt. Maria Hawke, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman.On May 27 at 9:27 p.m., police were dispatched to a crash in the 5000 block of East Golf Links Road, near South Craycroft Road, Hawke said.The drivers of both ...

  • Jury convicts Arizona man in terrorism hoax

    PHOENIX -; An Arizona man on trial for sending his 16-year-old nephew into a busy intersection last summer with a fake grenade launcher was convicted Monday of endangering the teen's life and carrying out a terrorism ...

  • Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizonas Proof-of-Citizenship Voter Requirement

    It is unconstitutional to make voters prove their U.S. citizenship to be able to register to vote. The Supreme Court made that reversal to Arizona law in a 7-2 decision. Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal breaks down the details of that ruling with Judy ...

  • Supreme Court Rejects Arizona’s Racist Voting Law

    Earlier today, the Supreme Court concluded that the state of Arizonacannot ask for proof of citizenship for federal voter registration. So someone may want to check on former Arizona State Senator Russell Pierce, the state’s adjunct super Mexican hater and author of the state's anti-immigration law that instituted certain levels of brown as a form of ...


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  • SCOTUS strikes down Arizona voter law requiring citizenship proof

    The Arizona law was intended to prevent voter fraud, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it violates the 20-year-old Motor Voter law. NBC's Pete Williams ...

  • Wildfires to Increase Over California Nevada Utah and Arizona

    AccuWeather.com reports weather favoring the spread of wildfires will increase over California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona Tuesday into Wednesday. A strong storm system moving onshore into the Northwest will work to kick up winds over the Southwest into the middle of the week. While winds will not be damaging in most cases, they will be strong enough to raise the risk of spreading existing fires ...

  • Arizona voting measure tossed

    WASHINGTON -- States can't demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections unless they get federal or court approval to do so, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a decision complicating efforts in Arizona and other states to bar voting by people who are in the country ...

  • Medicaid expanded in Arizona

    PHOENIX -- Republican Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday signed a law widening the state's Medicaid program to 300,000 more poor Arizonans. It was a victory over conservatives in her own party opposed to embracing a key part of President Obama's health care ...

  • Colorado rebuffed voter ID laws like those struck down in Arizona

    Colorado's Republican legislators, with backing from Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler, unsuccessfully attempted to tighten the state's voter identification laws last year by requiring a photo ID to vote. But Colorado lawmakers have not gone as far as requiring proof of citizenship like Arizona.The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Arizona and other states cannot on their own ...

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