Wearing a T-shirt that read “Free Bird,” an Arizona man who spent nearly 28 years on death row was freed on Thursday after a judge overturned his conviction on charges that he had sexually assaulted and murdered his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by the man, Barry Jones,…
An Arizona judge threw out a lawsuit filed by Kari Lake over her defeat in last year’s race for governor, ruling that she had failed to prove that the state’s most populous county, Maricopa, had neglected to review voters’ signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes. The decision, issued late Monday, is the latest legal setback for…
RIO VERDE, Ariz. — Joe McCue thought he had found a desert paradise when he bought one of the new stucco houses sprouting in the granite foothills of Rio Verde, Ariz. There were good schools, mountain views and cactus-spangled hiking trails out the back door. Then the water got cut off. Earlier this month, the…
A state judge on Saturday rejected Kari Lake’s last-ditch effort to overturn her defeat in the Arizona governor’s race, dismissing for lack of evidence her last two claims of misconduct by Maricopa County election officials. The order by Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson, after a two-day trial in Phoenix that ended Thursday, follows more than…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court paved the way on Monday for the House committee investigating the Capitol attack to obtain phone records of Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party. As is its custom in ruling on emergency applications, the court’s brief order gave no reasons in denying Ms. Ward’s request that it…
“My message to the people in Arizona is do not get out of line until you’ve cast your vote,” Ms. Lake told reporters outside a polling station on the downtown campus of Arizona State University. “Stay in line and vote, vote, vote — we’ve got to vote today.” But Ms. Lake suggested, without providing evidence,…
A brief filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix says, “the First Amendment does not protect individuals’ right to assemble to engage in voter intimidation or coercion.”
Kari Lake, who in the span of two years transformed herself from a veteran local television news anchor into a tribune of the far-right political movement, won Arizona’s Republican primary for governor, according to The Associated Press. Ms. Lake prevailed over a field that included Karrin Taylor Robson — an ally of Gov. Doug Ducey,…