As in emergency powers, election legislation and education funding.
And the session will get off to a quick start as one of the first act of lawmakers will be to determine whether it s time to finally pull the plug on the state of emergency that Gov. Doug Ducey declared 10 months ago, an action, if it gets a majority vote, the governor cannot veto.
Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, already has the language crafted.
Her measure, SCR 1001, seeks to take advantage of a provision in the law that gave Ducey the power to unilaterally declare an emergency in the first place. It says the emergency ends when the governor says it does or when a majority of legislators vote to say its over.
Chaos at the Capitol: Arizona officials react to D.C. riot over counting of electoral votes
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Arizona politicians speak out following riot over election results
Supporters of President Trump stormed the capitol building in Washington D.C. as lawmakers count votes from the electoral college.
PHOENIX - As supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump
riot in Washington D.C. over the results of November 2020 s presidential election, elected officials in Arizona are speaking out.
Trump had urged his supporters to come to Washington to protest Congress formal approval of Biden s win. The skirmishes came just shortly after Trump addressed thousands of his supporters, riling up the crowd with his baseless claims of election fraud at a rally near the White House on Jan. 6 ahead of Congress vote.
PHOENIX The head of the Arizona Republican Party is suing Vice President Mike Pence in a bid to give the election to Donald Trump.
Legal papers filed Sunday and Monday in federal court in Texas ask a judge there to void laws which give the ultimate authority to Congress to decide which Electoral College delegates should be counted.
But it’s not that Kelli Ward wants Arizona’s 11 electoral votes to go for Joe Biden, as reflected in the official and certified results. Instead, she wants the court to order that Pence has and must exercise unilateral power to decide which slate of electors from Arizona and other disputed states should be counted or if none of the electoral votes for Biden from Arizona should be counted at all. And even in that case, Ward’s lawsuit proposes an option that could still throw the election to Trump.
By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
PHOENIX The head of the Arizona Republican Party is suing Vice President Mike Pence in a bid to give the election to Donald Trump.
Legal papers filed Sunday and Monday in federal court in Texas ask a judge there to void laws which give the ultimate authority to Congress to decide which Electoral College delegates should be counted.
But it s not that Kelli Ward wants Arizona s 11 electoral votes to go for Joe Biden, as reflected in the official and certified results. Instead, she wants the court to order that Pence has and must exercise unilateral power to decide which slate of electors from Arizona and other disputed states should be counted or if none of the electoral votes for Biden from Arizona should be counted at all. And even in that case, Ward s lawsuit proposes an option that could still throw the election to Trump.