June 30, 2004

A federal appeals court Friday reaffirmed its decision that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because of the phrase ‘‘under God,’’ a decision that immediately cast a cloud over the way the pledge is recited in schools and other public arenas in Arizona.

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush administration will renew its effort to find out what people have been looking for on Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine, continuing a legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government.

On paper, the issue the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Monday is simple: should Arizona lawmakers be forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to comply with a judge’s ruling that they do more to ensure students learn English?

When Paul Clement walks into the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday he’s going to try to convince at least five justices that Arizona has an inherent right to enforce federal immigration laws.

When Paul Clement walks into the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday he’s going to try to convince at least five justices that Arizona has an inherent right to enforce federal immigration laws.

Part of a wrongfultermination suit filed against the Scottsdale Unified School District has been dismissed, and another part may be affected by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Part of a wrongfultermination suit filed against the Scottsdale Unified School District has been dismissed, and another part may be affected by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

AJO – Maria Barragan has a business in Mexico and a home in Arizona. Her three children, all U.S. citizens, attend school in the Ajo Unified School District.

Thursday’s landmark ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on gun ownership is a welcome and long overdue recognition that the Second Amendment belongs to every American, not just to the military.

May 28, 2004

A federal court is going to give Republicans a chance to argue that the state's 30 legislative districts should be redrawn for the 2014 election.

Gov. Jan Brewer is making a bid this week to salvage part of what's left of the law she signed in 2010 aimed at illegal immigration.

A federal appeals court refused to block timber cutting on land in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests burned in the Rodeo-Chediski wildfire last year.

PHOENIX -- Arizona will get its last legal shot this spring to finally enforce all of its 2-year-old immigration law.

Saying the federal government has "largely ignored'' pleas for help, Arizona asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to let state and local police enforce new laws aimed at illegal immigrants.

Saying the federal government has "largely ignored'' pleas for help, Arizona asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to let state and local police enforce new laws aimed at illegal immigrants.

Saying the federal government has "largely ignored'' pleas for help, Arizona asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to let state and local police enforce new laws aimed at illegal immigrants.

WASHINGTON – Illegal re-entry became the most-frequent federal criminal charge in the United States during the first six months of fiscal 2011, a pattern that was mirrored in Arizona during that period.

Defense attorneys argued before the nation’s high court Tuesday that twice-convicted murderer Jeffrey Landrigan should get another hearing that could lighten his sentence.

September 22, 2004

Copies of the student newspaper blocked from circulation last month at Mesa’s Fremont Junior High School have been destroyed — a move that infuriates journalism students who were battling for release of the newspaper.

State lawmakers contend voters were legally powerless a dozen years ago to take away from them the power to draw congressional district lines.