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AZGOP Chair Accused of Congressional Run Gets ‘Loomer-ed’

October 15, 2025 12:40 pmOctober 15, 2025 12:40 pm

Arizona GOP chairwoman Gina Swoboda became the center of a political firestorm last week following the announcement of Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ01) vacating his congressional seat to run for Governor. With word spreading of a fundraising reception for Swoboda in...

Supreme Court Hearing Arguments Today in Critical Voting Rights Act Case

October 15, 2025 11:56 amOctober 15, 2025 3:53 pm

Today, the United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments in Louisiana v. Callais on race-based redistricting and the Voting Rights Act, which will impact the entire country. This is a challenge to the congressional map that Louisiana adopted in 2024,...

Family Law Case Management

October 15, 2025 2:30 amOctober 15, 2025 2:31 am

Division 6, Part 3, Chapter 6 of the California Family Code deals with case management for dissolution of marriage and legal separation cases. Section 2450 provides that the purpose of family centered case resolution is to benefit the parties by...

The Proposition 50 Exodus

October 14, 2025 3:00 pmOctober 14, 2025 3:01 pm

There was an interesting Letter to the Editor in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend. In commenting on Proposition 50, the ballot measure to alter congressional district lines, the letter writer noted the disparity of California Democratic representatives in...

Barack Obama Endorses Prop 50, ‘Democracy Is On The Ballot’

October 14, 2025 2:11 pmOctober 15, 2025 12:45 pm

Former President Barack Obama has released a 30-second ad urging Californians to vote “yes” on Prop 50, a $250 million ballot measure that would “temporarily” eliminate a democratically-elected, bipartisan redistricting commission and hand unilateral control of the state’s redistricting to...

2025 Session Governor Bill Signing Messages

October 14, 2025 2:09 pmOctober 14, 2025 2:09 pm

Like governors before him, Governor Gavin Newsom on occasion includes a “signing message” with bills that he has signed. Although only veto messages are specified in the California Constitution, governors have historically used signing messages to express their intent or...

Does Transmission Still Matter for Mandates? The Ninth Circuit Doesn’t Think So

October 14, 2025 11:30 amOctober 14, 2025 11:30 am

For more than a century, the government’s claimed power to coerce medical intervention rested on a single premise: protecting others. That was the logic of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905), which upheld a $5 fine for refusing a smallpox vaccine. Even...