When the bond was passed 1100 years ago to create California’s high speed rail project/grifty thingy/whatever, voters were told a number of things like where it would go, when it would be done, and how much it would cost. ...
Some of the larger cities across the nation have been mired in controversy and escalating crime by virtue of attitudes and policies implemented by Woke law enforcement officials—District Attorneys in particular. The politics of crime has been at the forefront...
Buried in the massive 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act were a few lines calling for the installation in all new cars starting in 2026 of a system that would detect whether or not the driver was drunk and, if...
The California Government Code, among other sources, provides a number of procedural rules for the State Legislature and the lawmaking process in this state. And a number of those statutory provisions have been the subject of litigation, so we have...
Despite spending untold billions on the homeless, we now have 653,000 homeless people in the United States – 70,650 more than last year, a 12 percent increase, House and Urban Development (HUD) announced Friday in a new report. Homelessness would...
Both the Assembly and Senate of the California Legislature, like other legislative bodies, utilize several rules, as well as customs and practices, for the purpose of ensuring that legislative deliberations and debate operate in a civil and orderly way. The...
In the California Legislature, there is an order to listing a bill’s authors and co-authors and there are different types of co-authors. What do the Joint Rules provide? Joint Rule 10.7, titled “Heading of Bills,” provides the following: “10.7. A...