Earlier today, Professor Leslie Gielow Jacobs – Director of the Capital Center for Law & Policy at McGeorge School of Law – offered her reaction to Justice Kennedy’s announcement that he will be retiring from the Supreme Court of the United States, effective July 31, 2018. She gave her thoughts on the Capital Public Radio
The Role of the Judicial Branch in the Legislative Process
The Role of the Judicial Branch in the Legislative Process (transcript)
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/the-role-of-the-judicial-branch-in-the-legislative-process
Today’s podcast is on the role of the judicial branch in the lawmaking process here in California. Members of the state and federal judiciary branches play a role in California lawmaking in the actual legislative process, as part of our
United States v. California – A Preview of Tomorrow’s Oral Argument on California’s Sanctuary State Laws
It’s been three months since U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to Sacramento to announce his lawsuit against the State of California challenging various provisions of the new sanctuary state law. I posted about my initial evaluation of the claims when Sessions announced the lawsuit. Tomorrow is a big hearing in federal
Recent developments on “California Exceptionalism” in efforts to limit air pollution and fight global warming
By: John Sims
Previous posts have described the decades-long efforts by California to deal with the challenge of air pollution. Automobile-generated air pollution in the Los Angeles area forced California to start developing responses before Congress was ready to take action, and therefore when the Clean Air Act was passed by Congress in 1970 the
My take on Sessions’ sanctuary suit
Two takes on Attorney General Sessions’ lawsuit against California
https://www.facebook.com/McGeorgeCapCtr/videos/1801095910193287/
Last night, news broke that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the U.S. Department of Justice are suing the state of California, Governor Jerry Brown, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra over California’s sanctuary jurisdiction policies.
Prior to the development, the Federalist Society had lined up Professor Josh Blackman from Southern Texas College
Hearing set for today in one of California’s many court challenges to Trump roll-backs of federal policy
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has filed a total of 22 lawsuits in 17 different subject areas against the Trump administration.
The Sacramento Bee compiled a list of all the pending cases, along with quick summaries of each, and arranged them by subject matter. You can find links to the many complaints
Kennedy looks to be the decider, again, on LGBT rights
It looks like Justice Anthony Kennedy will provide the key vote again, in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, argued today in the U.S. Supreme Court. The case pits a cake baker’s free speech claim against the state’s efforts to provide equal access to goods and services regardless of
When is baking a cake speech? What the answer means for California and civil rights laws.
In December, the Court will hear argument in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. A cake baker claims that a Colorado civil rights law, which requires him, as a merchant serving the public, to provide his product on a nondiscriminatory basis to gay people for their weddings, unconstitutionally compels
California and the Court – Assault Weapons Bans
California is one of seven states that bans assault weapons, which are semi-automatic, military-style weapons with features that make them easy to conceal, and easy to fire multiple rounds of ammunition continuously. The National Rifle Association (NRA) is in the process of filing a series of lawsuits challenging the