All eyes are on the Supreme Court this week, for two very important reasons. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled on the controversial immigration law in Arizona. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer introduced this law as a means to enforce the immigration policies she felt the federal government wasn’t doing.  You may remember Brewer as the woman captured in tons of pictures, putting her finger in the face of the President of the United States. In the ruling, the Supreme Court rejected 3 parts of the law, and upheld the most controversial part. That part being, the right of law enforcement to ask someone...

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Determining who will represent the Arizona's 8th Congressional District will be decided today. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced earlier this year that she would focus on her rehabilitation instead of returing to Congress, after being shot in the head at a townhall meeting in 2011. The candidates up for her seat are her former aide, Ron Barber, who was himself injured during the townhall attack in 2011 and Tea-party/ GOP candidate Jesse Kelly. This election can also be used as a somewhat foreshadowing tool of what's important in voters eye's, seeing as though it is the last election nationwide...

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The results are in and Mitt Romney has won both Michigan and Arizona primaries. What does this mean? Well for starters, Romney has proved to many voters of the GOP that he was and still is the frontrunner for this election. Romney noted last night, “We didn’t win by a lot but we won by enough and that’s what counts.” Santorum on the other hand suffered a loss, but fortunately for him Michigan is not a winner-take-all state like Arizona; allowing him to walk away with at least 11 delegates from the lost. Romney took home 29 delegates in Arizona last night. The next big move is Ohio....

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Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced Sunday evening that she would be stepping down from her Congressional seat to focus on her health and recovery, as a result of being struck in the head by a bullet during a townhall meeting last year. Giffords was one of 13 people wounded, while 6 others were killed. Though it seemed that Rep. Giffords had experienced a speedy recovery and returned back to the House of Representatives in the latter part of 2011, her wounds haven't completely healed. Her speech was severly affected in the assassination attempt and is one of the of the areas that...

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