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Zuckerberg to Replace Facebook ‘Fact Checkers’ With Community Notes

January 7, 2025 7:19 amJanuary 7, 2025 7:20 am

Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday morning that his company Meta/Facebook will end its fact-checking program, and will instead adopt Elon Musk’s X/Twitter “Community Notes” system. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg admits “fact checkers” on...

An Asterisk* for Soros’ Medal of Freedom

January 7, 2025 2:55 amJanuary 7, 2025 7:37 am

Reaction to outgoing President Joe Biden’s awarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros was swift. Condemnation, ridicule and disbelief focused on both Biden himself and the radical recipient. This is yet another outrageous act in a string of...

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California Courts and Retroactivity of Criminal Statutes

January 7, 2025 2:30 amJanuary 7, 2025 2:31 am

While we know that a general principle of statutory construction is to apply new laws prospectively, criminal law statutes can be unique particularly problematic when it comes to their effective or operative dates. The following is a recent state appellate...

Why Incumbent Congressional Representatives Michelle Steel and John Duarte Should Have Won

January 6, 2025 4:06 pmJanuary 6, 2025 4:13 pm

In 2020, California’s Assembly Bill 860 fundamentally altered state election laws by requiring county elections officials to mail a vote-by-mail ballot to every registered voter for all elections. The bill allowed ballots postmarked on or before Election Day to be...

SF Chronicle Calls Prop. 13 Property Tax Cuts ‘Subsidies’

January 6, 2025 10:59 amJanuary 6, 2025 9:46 pm

The San Francisco Chronicle has an article today about Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot initiative overwhelmingly passed by California voters, which reduced property tax rates on homes, businesses, and farms by about 57%. Opponents have long claimed that because of...

When and Why: California’s ‘Compassionate Release’ Program Simply Doesn’t Work

January 6, 2025 6:34 amJanuary 6, 2025 6:34 am

The term “second chance” is usually good – except when it comes to some criminals. On one hand, you do have those that have learned their lessons from whatever action they’ve taken, and actually take the opportunity to make themselves...

California Courts and the Legislature’s Budget Authority

January 6, 2025 2:30 amJanuary 6, 2025 2:31 am

Both the Legislature and the Governor in California play critical roles in the development and adoption of the state budget. Relevant provisions of state law related to the budget process are contained in Article IV of the state Constitution. So,...