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California Lawsuit Would Protect Local Governments Being Muzzled by State Laws

March 20, 2025 10:55 amMarch 20, 2025 10:55 am

Local democracy stands as one of the most underappreciated hallmarks of our constitutional republic. Counties and municipalities are the elected bodies most directly accountable to the voters, but their size and scope relative to federal agencies leaves them too easily...

California Courts and Ex Post Facto Laws

December 21, 2024 2:30 amDecember 21, 2024 2:31 am

What is an “ex post facto” law? This phrase comes from Latin that basically means “after the fact” and its describes when a law is changed retroactively to capture previous conduct and subject that conduct to legal consequences. Ex post...

Supreme Court Hearing on Transgender Youth Raises Critical Questions for Parents

December 12, 2024 3:30 amDecember 12, 2024 3:31 am

The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised, after the hearing in United States v. Skrmetti last week, to uphold Tennessee’s ban on medical care designed to change a minor’s gender. Based upon questions asked at the hearing, the ruling will likely...

Just How Effective Was The Abortion Debate in The 2024 Election?

November 18, 2024 12:44 pmNovember 18, 2024 12:44 pm

I have written twice before at CaliforniaGlobe.com on perhaps the most divisive issue in our nation since slavery. That issue of course is abortion. Well before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision Roe v. Wade was argued and published, the...

Kamala’s Upbringing Would Have Been Quite Troubling to America’s Founders

September 24, 2024 12:10 pmSeptember 24, 2024 12:15 pm

Barack Hussein Obama infamously pronounced upon winning the election that he planned to “fundamentally transform America.” The statement is inapposite to President Donald Trump’s vision to “make America great again.” We know to which statement Kamala Harris most identifies. The...

Supreme Court Restores Cities’ Ability to Ban Camping, LA Mayor Refuses

July 9, 2024 3:54 pmJuly 9, 2024 3:54 pm

President Andrew Jackson infamously said in response to a U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling he did not like regarding the sovereignty of Native American Tribes, “the Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass...

LA Homeless Report Finds City Has Been Actively Making People Lose Shelter

July 6, 2024 2:25 amJuly 6, 2024 2:26 am

A new report unveiled at the Los Angeles City Council meeting earlier this week found that the city impounded 555 vehicles in which homeless people lived in while only offering shelter to 186 in the pat two years, going directly...