Senate majority leader urges attorney general to retract remarks, moves adjournment

The Arizona Senate Majority Leader used a point of personal privilege on the floor to say he had asked the attorney general to "retract her dangerous, incomplete, confusing statement and resign," and then moved that the Senate adjourn until Feb. 3, 2026.

The remark came as the Majority Leader said he had introduced a bill tied to the request and criticized the attorney general's comments as "inappropriate," saying officials must "turn down the temperature" to avoid increasing the potential for violence. "I think her comments were inappropriate and she should retract them," the Majority Leader said on the Senate floor.

The leader also referenced Governor Katie Hobbs during the remarks, saying, "let me give credit to the author of those comments, Democrat governor Katie Hobbs," and later adding, "I want to thank the governor for having the courage to, literally figuratively, not literally say the AG has no clothes." The comments were read into the record as part of a motion to adjourn.

After the statement the Majority Leader moved that the Senate stand adjourn until Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, at 1:15 p.m. The presiding officer called for a voice vote; senators responded 'Aye' and the presiding officer declared the Senate adjourned.

No formal disciplinary measure or vote on a resolution targeting the attorney general was recorded on the floor during these remarks. The floor action that followed was the motion to adjourn, which the chamber approved by voice vote.