GOP senator wants to dissolve appeals court covering seven southern counties

By: Caitlin Sievers

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: February 3, 2026

Words: 1,048

Last Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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A Republican state senator wants to dissolve the branch of the Arizona Court of Appeals that covers southern Arizona.

“I suppose the best way to describe what the appellate court seems to be doing is schizophrenic,” Sen. Mark Finchem, R-Prescott, said last week during an Arizona Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee hearing. “It’s all over the place on its decisions.”

But Finchem didn’t provide any specifics about what it is, exactly, that he thinks …

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