Ben Giles

In Arizona, Supreme Court justices serve six-year terms. After they’re appointed by the governor, they’re up for reelection by popular vote at the end of each term. But Republicans sent a question to the ballot that would eliminate that choice over the objection of Democrats.

The Arizona Republican Party is launching Chick-fil-A-inspired billboards to further spread debunked allegations of immigrants eating pets.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, spent Friday evening with a boisterous crowd in Arizona, a state President Joe Biden narrowly won in 2020, and one Harris may need to win in November to defeat the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump.

Military veterans backing U.S. Senate hopeful Ruben Gallego said the Democratic congressman has their back in Washington because “he’s one of us.”

If the U.S. senator, seen as a potential contender to be tapped as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, is chosen and then wins in November, it’d set off a chain of events that would extend Arizona’s nearly decade-long streak of holding elections for a Senate seat every even-numbered year since 2016.

Last week, the Arizona State Supreme Court ordered the enforcement of a law from 1864 banning nearly all abortions. That’s led both presidential campaigns to focus on the battleground state.

Republican Kari Lake on Tuesday denounced an Arizona Supreme Court ruling reviving a near-total ban on abortion in the state — a law she previously praised as a gubernatorial candidate less than two years ago.<br><small><b>→ <a href=“https://kjzz.org/politics” target=“_blank”>More Arizona politics news</a></b></small>

President Joe Biden touched down in Phoenix Tuesday afternoon for his second stop in a campaign swing through Nevada and Arizona, states that are expected to play an outsized role in his campaign for a second term in the White House.The president’s flight arrived about an hour early, so the welcoming party to greet Biden on the tarmac was sparse.

Tucson native Cord Jefferson won the award for best adapted screenplay for his satirical film, “American Fiction,” at the Academy Awards on Sunday night.“Thank you all who worked on this movie for trusting a 40-year-old Black guy who’d never directed anything before. It has changed my life, I love you all. Thank you so much,” he said in his acceptance speech.Jefferson, who wrote and directed his feature film debut about the struggles of an African American novelist, also pleaded for executives t…

Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to travel to Phoenix on Friday, following President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address a day earlier.It will be Harris’ fourth trip to Arizona since being sworn in, according to the White House. Details about the visit have not yet been released.The Phoenix stop is one of two Harris plans to make in the Southwest — after Arizona, she’s scheduled to travel to Las Vegas on Saturday.