Overview

• Justices ruled legislative leaders have standing to challenge Proposition 211 but did not address the law’s constitutionality.
• The case returns to superior court for further proceedings, and the disclosure requirements remain in force in the meantime.
• Justice Clint Bolick wrote the majority opinion embracing an institutional-injury theory of standing, with Chief Justice Ann Scott Timmer and Justice Rebecca White Berch dissenting.
• The suit by GOP leaders targets the law’s delegation of enforcement to the Citizens Clean Elections Commission; Ben Toma has been replaced in the case by current House Speaker Steve Montenegro alongside Senate President Warren Petersen.
• A separate challenge by the Center for Arizona Policy, the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, and two anonymous donors remains pending after lower courts rejected claims that the measure violates free speech, association, privacy, and separation of powers.