An Arizona federal judge ruled that Peoria's school board didn't violate Heather Rooks's free speech rights when they attempted to shut down her scripture readings. It left the question open on if she's violating the constitution.
A month before her Phoenix performance, Lady Blackbird sits down with LOOKOUT to discuss themes in her music such as identity, faith, and queerness.
Mesa Rep. Lorena Austin is trying (again) to get a license plate bill passed to aid students after it has met all the required legislative rules. Republicans appear to be blocking it.
With the state's history of unequal justice in death sentence rulings, the co-chair of the legislative LGBTQ+ caucus wants to let voters decide if the death penalty should remain.
As Attorney General Kris Mayes lifts the state’s halt on prison executions, LGBTQ+ Caucus Co-chair Rep. Patty Contreras has contemporaneously reintroduced a 2022 measure to ban the punishment.
The bill and Mayes’ decision to resume executions also coincide with news reports that the drug used for lethal injection in Arizona, pentobarbital salt, have been kept in a secret refrigerator inside the department of corrections, unmarked and possibly expired, according to reporting from the AZ Mirror.
And earlier this month, former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland withdrew the lethal drug from its execution protocol, saying it would cause “unnecessary pain and suffering.”
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