When Power Consolidates: The AR Board of Corrections Case and Its Aftermath

Foundational Interview:   “How many times do you have to win to win against the Governor?”   Conduit interviews on April 13, 2026, Abtin Mehdizadegan, Special Counsel to the State Board of Corrections (Nov 2023 - Jan, 2026), giving the listeners an inside look from his perspective of the background happenings on how Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her state agencies and boards  “rule over the people,”  using shocking examples such as denying payment for his services to his client (the Board) by the Governor’s actors, in spite of and contrary to a Court Ruling ordering payment, and the Governor’s hand-appointed Board voting to change an Arkansas Supreme Court finding that limits her power-all being implemented by the Attorney General.