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Kaiser Nurse Hits CA Nurses Union With Federal Charges for Forcing Nurses to Fund Union Politics

July 22, 2025 10:00 amJuly 22, 2025 10:01 am

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation reports that Sarah Warthemann, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente’s branch in Woodland Hills, has just filed federal charges against the United Nurses Association of California union at her workplace because UNAC officials...

Supreme Court Rules for Parents’ Right to Opt Children Out of LGBT-Themed Lessons

June 30, 2025 3:30 amJune 30, 2025 1:58 pm

In a decision that local conservatives are hailing as dealing a crushing blow to LBGTQ indoctrination efforts in California, the United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Maryland public school parents can opt their kids out of lessons with LGBT-themed...

From the Cheap Seats: Liberating Local Government

July 8, 2024 6:32 amJuly 8, 2024 10:19 am

A recent decision of the United States Supreme Court has important implications for localities in California trying to address the problem of homelessness. With a 6-3 majority in the case of City of Grants Pass v. Johnson the high court...

Homeless Account for 12% of Fire Calls in Los Angeles

July 2, 2024 10:00 amJuly 2, 2024 10:01 am

In a typical day in the city of Los Angeles, the fire department will go on about 1,500 calls for service. That’s fires, medical issues, cats in trees and everything else. Also on a typical day, the city’s homeless population...

Supremes Kneecap Administrative State

June 28, 2024 1:40 pmJune 28, 2024 1:40 pm

The United States Supreme Court today threw out 40 years of precedent and overturned the principle of Chevron deference, blowing a huge hole in the power of the administrative state. In a 6 to 3 ruling (Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and...

Supremely Wrong: Court Ruling on Murthy Misses Point Entirely

June 26, 2024 1:54 pmJune 26, 2024 1:54 pm

The United States Supreme Court ruled today, in a 6 to 3 decision, that the plaintiffs in the most important free speech case in decades did not have standing to ask for preliminary injunctive relief. That is wrong. In her...

The Courts and Homelessness: City Anti-Camping Ordinance Goes Before the Supremes

April 22, 2024 3:57 pmApril 22, 2024 4:15 pm

When discussing homelessness, California state and local officials often point to a federal court ruling they say ties their hands completely when it comes to dealing with the problem. But it appears, from the tenor of the oral arguments today...