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Ringside: How Dredging the Delta Enables Groundwater Recharge

August 28, 2025 3:45 amAugust 28, 2025 3:46 am

ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization and winner of multiple Pulitzer prizes, recently published a report “The Drying Planet.” They report that “Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the...

California’s Identity Support Plans Erode Parents’ Rights

August 28, 2025 2:45 amAugust 28, 2025 2:46 am

California’s Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD), like many districts across the state, offers a confidential arrangement known as an Identity Support Plan for transgender and gender-nonconforming students. Under this policy, staff are required to affirm a student’s stated gender...

Administration of Oaths

August 28, 2025 2:30 amAugust 28, 2025 2:31 am

California’s Code of Civil Procedure in Part 4, Title 6, Chapter 3 deals with the administration of oaths and affirmations. Section 2093 provides that a court, judge or clerk of a court, justice, notary public, and officer or person authorized...

Thoughts on the Lawsuit Against Prop. 50

August 27, 2025 2:20 pmAugust 27, 2025 2:24 pm

As I have been asked about my thoughts regarding the legislative process challenges to the redistricting legislative package, I prepared this brief article in response. Being the legislative geek that I am, as well as teaching the course “Lawmaking in...

Nevada Secretary of State Delays And Fails To Provide Complete Voter Registration Records To DOJ

August 27, 2025 1:08 pmAugust 27, 2025 1:17 pm

The U.S. Department of Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, has twice requested voter registration records from Nevada’s Secretary of State Francisco “Cisco” Aguilar (D). The most recent request dated August...

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Evidence in Particular Cases

August 27, 2025 2:30 amAugust 27, 2025 2:31 am

Chapter 1 of Title 6 of Part 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure deals with evidence in particular cases. Section 2074 provides that an offer in writing to pay a particular sum of money, or to deliver a written...

Trump Floats Lead Trial Balloon, Says US May Accept 600,000 Chinese Students Into Universities

August 26, 2025 1:22 pmAugust 26, 2025 1:22 pm

During an Oval Office press conference yesterday, President Trump told reporters that the United States is prepared to accept 600,000 Chinese students as part of his ongoing trade negotiations with Beijing. “We’re going to allow their students to come in....