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Hamadeh Calls for Probe of AG Mayes over $200K Payday

November 17, 2025 12:18 pmNovember 18, 2025 2:31 pm

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is now at the center of a national controversy as Congressman Abe Hamadeh (R-CD8) formally requests that the U.S. Department of Justice open a federal investigation into what he calls a “coordinated bribery and prosecutorial...

Petersen, Montenegro Allege Hobbs, Mayes ‘Impeachable Offenses’

November 14, 2025 2:32 pmNovember 17, 2025 12:54 pm

Arizona’s political landscape erupted Thursday as Senate President Warren Petersen issued a blunt warning that Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes may have committed “impeachable offenses,” putting both officials under an unprecedented level of statewide — and now...

Mayes Jumps Into Strange Gagic-Mitchell Feud

November 13, 2025 4:49 pmNovember 17, 2025 12:54 pm

Arizona Attorney General has jumped into the complex and increasingly strange legal and political conflict involving Phoenix attorney Vladimir Gagic, Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, and Mitchell’s fiancé, Paul Stout. Mayes’ intervention represents a notable escalation, with the dispute now...

Werner to Chair Senate Oversight for $2.8B Medicaid Fraud

October 1, 2025 10:16 amOctober 10, 2025 2:34 pm

Arizona State Senator Carine Werner (R-4), chair of the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services, is leading a Senate oversight investigation into the recently uncovered fraud in the state’s Medicaid program. A preliminary report revealed that the state had...

Court Delivers Major Blow to Mayes’ So-Called ‘Fake Elector’ Case

September 23, 2025 10:52 amOctober 3, 2025 11:20 am

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes suffered another devastating legal setback this week when the Arizona Court of Appeals declined to hear her appeal in the alternate elector case, effectively forcing the entire prosecution back to square one. The Monday ruling...

Horne, Cota Demand Armed School Officers after Second Knife Incident

September 18, 2025 10:01 amSeptember 26, 2025 11:01 am

On Monday, September 15, 2025, two female Carl Hayden High School students were involved in a fight that left one of them injured, according to Phoenix Police. During the fight, one of the students struck the other with the handle...

Keshel Condems Dem Rhetoric as Fontes Claims Rising Fascism

September 17, 2025 10:03 amSeptember 26, 2025 11:01 am

Despite Arizona’s top Democratic officials, including Governor Hobbs, Tucson Mayor Romero, and AG Mayes, among others, issuing statements condemning political violence in the aftermath of the conservative leader Charlie Kirk’s assassination, some Republicans have argued their words were hollow and...