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A man enters the Arizona Supreme Court building in Phoenix on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

Arizona Supreme Court taps AI avatars to make the judicial system more publicly accessible

By Sejal Govindarao - Associated Press

U.S. Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., speaks during a debate with Republican challenger Kari Lake, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in Phoenix. (Cheryl Evans/Arizona Republic via AP)

Arizona Senate candidate Ruben Gallego’s divorce records unsealed, less than 3 weeks before election

By Jonathan J. Cooper - Associated Press

A voter walks to a voting precinct prior to casting his ballot in the state's primary election, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in El Mirage, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Nearly 98,000 Arizonans whose citizenship hadn’t been confirmed can vote full ballot, court rules

By Sejal Govindarao - Associated Press

Kari Lake, the Republican candidate who lost the Arizona governor's race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, speaks to supporters at a Republican gathering in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Nov. 8, 2022. A three-day trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday, May 17, 2023, over the only remaining legal claim in Lake's challenge of her loss to Hobbs in the Arizona governor's race. Courts have dismissed most of her lawsuit, but the Arizona Supreme Court revived a claim that challenges signature verification procedures on early ballots in Maricopa County. County officials say they are confident they will prevail in court. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Trial begins over Kari Lake’s last challenge to loss in Arizona governor’s race

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Kari Lake speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. Lake's lawyers have been sanctioned $2,000 by the Arizona Supreme Court in their unsuccessful challenge of her defeat last year to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the governor's race. In an order Thursday, May 4, 2023, the state's highest court said Lake's attorney knowingly made false statements that more than 35,000 ballots had been improperly added to the total ballot count. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Arizona Supreme Court fines Kari Lake’s lawyers in failed election lawsuit

By Jacques Billeaud - Associated Press

FILE - Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, center, delivers her state of the state address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 9, 2023. The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that state law doesn’t require Gov. Katie Hobbs to carry out execution of a prisoner who is scheduled to be put to death on April 6 for his conviction in a 2002 killing. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs steps in; scheduled execution unlikely next week

By Jacques Billeaud - Associated Press

FILE - Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs delivers her State of the State address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix, Jan. 9, 2023. On Friday, March 3, 2023, Hobbs said corrections officials do not plan to carry out an execution on April 6, 2023, even though the state Supreme Court scheduled it over the objections of the state's new attorney general. Hobbs has ordered a review of death penalty procedures in Arizona due to the state's history of mismanaging executions. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Arizona governor blasted for plans to defy court order on execution

By Jacques Billeaud - Associated Press

In this May 6, 2021, file photo, Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool, File)

Arizona Senate can keep 2020 election audit records secret, state Supreme Court rules

By Bob Christie - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows Clarence Dixon. A judge ruled Tuesday, May 3, 2022, that an Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1978 killing of a university student is mentally fit to be put to death next week. Dixon was convicted of murder in the killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

Judge won’t halt Arizona execution — at least for now

By Bob Christie - Associated Press

High court overturns Arizona law capping restitution amounts

Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows Frank Atwood, who was sentenced to death in the 1984 killing of 8-year-old Vicki Lynn Hoskinson in Pima County, Ariz. Atwood and another death row prisoner have asked the Arizona Supreme Court to hold off on scheduling litigation over the warrants that would trigger their executions, which would mark the state's first executions in almost seven years. (Arizona Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Prisoner disputes shelf life of Arizona’s execution drug

By JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press

Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert M. Brutinel, center, speaks during oral arguments, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Phoenix as Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, left, and Justice Clint Bolick listen. The Arizona Supreme Court heard an expedited constitutional challenge to a new voter-approved tax on high-earning Arizonans designed to boost school funding on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Arizona Supreme Court questions new education tax legality

By BOB CHRISTIE - Associated Press

Arizona court: Non-lawyers allowed to invest in law firms

By KYRA HAAS - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows Frank Atwood, who was sentenced to death in the 1984 killing of 8-year-old Vicki Lynn Hoskinson in Pima County. On Tuesday, April 6, 2021, prosecutors said they have told the Arizona Supreme Court that they intend on soon seeking execution warrants for Atwood and another death-row inmate in what would be the state's first executions in almost seven years. (Arizona Department of Corrections via AP)

Arizona plans to seek warrants for 1st executions in years

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Prosecutors make another death penalty bid against immigrant

By JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press

Arizona Supreme Court to hear challenge to new education tax

By BOB CHRISTIE - Associated Press

Court upholds ex-deputy’s compensation claim from shooting

Associated Press

Arizona Supreme Court task force refocuses on disinformation

By KYRA HAAS - Associated Press

Legislature tries to give AG right to sue over tuition

By BOB CHRISTIE - Associated Press

In this Nov. 4, 2020, file photo, Maricopa County elections officials count ballots in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Arizona Supreme Court upholds election challenge dismissal

By BOB CHRISTIE and JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press