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732, 735 , 122 L.Ed.2d 1 (1993) (internal citation omitted); ¶ 7 , (same standard used in Arizona courts).

A. Jurisdiction ¶ 7 Article 6, Section 5(1) of the Arizona Constitution grants this Court original jurisdiction over “mandamus, injunction and other extraordinary writs to State officers.” We exercise this jurisdiction through the special action procedure, but our decision to accept jurisdiction is “highly discretionary.” , 485 ¶¶ 10-11, , 425 ¶ 6

¶ 8 , (declining to treat as a political question the legislature’s claim that a veto by the governor exceeded her authority: “To determine whether a branch of state government has exceeded the powers granted by the Arizona Constitution requires that we construe the language of the con

3, State Bar Committee Note; ¶ 11

.’” Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224, 228 (1993) (quoting Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 217 (1962)); ¶ 7, (defining political questions as “decisions that the constitution commits to one of the political branches of government and raise issues not susceptible to discoverable and manageable standards” (citing Baker, 369 U.S. at 217)).