Hobbs nominated Judge Maria Elena Cruz, a lifelong resident of Yuma, Arizona, to the state Supreme Court. Cruz will replace Justice Robert Brutinel, who retired last year. “Judge Maria Elena Cruz has ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

Maria Elena Cruz is Gov. Katie Hobbs' first appointment to the Arizona Supreme Court, a pick that earned praise from both ...

Sen. Joan Huffman has filed a bill that proposes to raise the state's base salary for judges from $140,000 to $161,000 — a ...

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court. The state appellate judge from rural ...

Maria Elena Cruz, a state appeals court judge, is the first Latina and first Black Arizonan to serve on the state’s most influential bench.

One of the Trump administration’s actions that supporters of abortion rights found most alarming — and that opponents were ...

Efforts to limit access to the abortion drug mifepristone have received a boost from a federal judge who took the bench during President Donald Trump’s first term. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ...

The Supreme Court upheld the federal law that bans domestic abusers under protective orders from having guns in the Rahimi ...

Judge James Ho stood out among conservative judges for his uncompromising support for birthright citizenship. With Trump's ...

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the ...