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Arizona Secretary of State Republican candidate Mark Finchem listens to instructions prior to debating democratic challenger Adrian Fontes, Sept. 22, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Legislative immunity is a privilege in most states. A speeding ticket could change that in Arizona

The majority of state constitutions shield lawmakers from arrests, lawsuits and low-level infractions like traffic tickets during legislative sessions. It’s a privilege known as legislative immunity. Arizona Republican state Sen.
 
Maria Elena Cruz speaks to reporters after Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs announces Cruz's appointment to the Arizona Supreme Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Gabriel Sandoval)

Arizona’s governor appoints first Latina and Black justice to state Supreme Court

 
FILE - Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey answers a question during a news conference, Dec. 2, 2020, in Phoenix. A ban on nearly all abortions in Arizona doesn’t sit well with Ducey, the Republican former governor whose expansion of the state Supreme Court allowed him to appoint the four conservative justices whose ruling cleared the way for it. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)

Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says the abortion ruling from justices he chose goes too far

 
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 lawmakers face big deficit due mostly to massive tax cut and school voucher expansion

 
FILE - A long row of double-stacked shipping contrainers provide a new wall between the United States and Mexico in the remote section area of San Rafael Valley, Ariz., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Two federal lawsuits filed over former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s decision last year to place thousands of shipping containers along the U.S.-Mexico border have been dismissed after the state said it would pay the U.S. Forest Service $2.1 million to repair environmental damage. The Sept. 15, 2023, dismissal of the cases in U.S. District Court ends the fight over the double-stacked containers that were placed as a makeshift border wall. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

The fight over Arizona’s shipping container border wall ends with dismissal of federal lawsuits

 

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Arizona grand jury indicts pair for alleged school voucher fraud

 

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FILE - Phoenix Police stand in front of police headquarters on May 30, 2020, in Phoenix, waiting for protesters marching to protest the death of George Floyd. A federal judge has ruled that an Arizona law limiting how close people can get to recording law enforcement is unconstitutional, citing a clearly established right to film police doing their jobs. The ruling Friday, July 21, 2023 from U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi permanently blocks enforcement of the law that he suspended last year (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Court strikes down limits on filming of police in Arizona