Sahara Sajjadi
Sahara Sajjadi Pronunciation (she/her)
News Digital Reporter, Washington, D.C.

Sahara Sajjadi expects to graduate in August 2024 with a master’s degree in mass communication. Sajjadi has worked as a graduate assistant at The Reynolds Center, writing about topics pertaining to the business world. She is also a recipient of the White House Correspondents Association scholarship award.

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Unable to vote but with much at stake, undocumented migrants register Arizona voters and mobilize against anti-immigrant candidates

WASHINGTON – Undocumented migrants face a tough election cycle, with state and national policies at stake that threaten to make their lives in the U.S. untenable. To push back, some are mobilizing to encourage citizens to oppose anti-immigrant policies and candidates.

Community leaders and groups hold a banner at a rally for National Voter Registration Day at the state Capitol in Phoenix on Sept. 20, 2022. (File photo by Alexia Faith/Cronkite News)

Arizona’s homeless could be targeted by police under Supreme Court ruling allowing bans on public encampments

WASHINGTON – Arizona advocates fear the new Supreme Court ruling will have a disastrous impact on homeless people.

Arizona advocates worry what the new Supreme Court ruling means for local homeless populations. (File photo by Monserrat Apud/Cronkite News)

Arizona survivor of Las Vegas massacre reflects on Supreme Court ruling to make bump stocks accessible

WASHINGTON – Justin Uhart, a survivor of the Las Vegas massacre, weighs in on the U.S. Supreme Court decision to reverse a Donald Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory used in the massacre that killed 60 people in 2017.

A 7.62x39 mm round sits next to a 30-round magazine and an AK-47 with a bump stock installed. The bump stock is a device that allows a semi-automatic to fire at a rapid rate much like a fully automatic gun. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)

Supreme Court upholds gun ban on domestic abusers, defying its usual ideological split on Second Amendment rights

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court upholds gun ban on domestic abusers as reasonable limit to Second Amendment rights.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that domestic abusers cannot have access to a firearm. (File photo by Tynin Fries/Cronkite News)

Arizona Legislature adjourns just in time to prevent repealed 1864 abortion ban from taking effect

WASHINGTON – The Arizona Legislature adjourned just in time to prevent a legal quirk that would have briefly resurrected an 1864 near-total abortion ban that lawmakers had repealed.

The Arizona Legislature finalized the state budget and adjourned June 15, just in time to prevent the 1864 abortion ban, which it repealed, from taking effect again for a few days in September. (File photo by Ellen O’Brien/Cronkite News)

Supreme Court dashes Arizona death row inmate’s hope to avoid death penalty in 1992 double murder

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Danny Lee Jones, on Arizona death row since 1993, won’t be resentenced despite claims his lawyer didn’t do enough to win sympathy at sentencing.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Danny Lee Jones, on Arizona death row since 1993, won’t be resentenced despite claims his lawyer didn’t do enough to win sympathy at sentencing. (File photo by Haley Smilow/Cronkite News)