As I discussed yesterday in my post “How California Municipalities are experimenting with voting,” cumulative voting is an electoral process in which voters have a number of votes equal to the number of seats to be elected. For example, if in an election there were three seats up for election, voters would have
How California Municipalities are experimenting with voting
San Francisco has had a lively debate over their Ranked Choice Voting policy since its inception. Ranked choice voting (RCV) is where voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. A candidate who wins the majority of first-choice votes is declared the winner. If no candidate wins on first-choice, the candidate with
Capital Center Director featured in ABA Journal
McGeorge School of Law’s Professor, and Capital Center for Law & Policy Director, Leslie Gielow Jacobs was recently quoted in “Threatening Words: Courts lack clarity in determining when rants and raves exceed the boundaries of protected speech and should be considered a real danger” by David L. Hudson Jr. in the August 2018
The CAP⋅impact Podcast – Episode 15: Mental Health Legislation Rundown – Part 2
In today’s episode, we finish our conversation with Adriana Ruelas and Adrienne Shilton from the Steinberg Institute. You can find the first half of our conversation here. Today we talk about SB 1113 and AB 1971.
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/episode-15-mental-health-legislation-rundown-part-2
They’re both interesting bills. SB 1113 would establish voluntary workplace mental health standards, meaning that the
How can Congress protect the Special Counsel without violating the Constitution? Yale’s Akhil Reed Amar explains
The U.S. Senate is considering two pieces of legislation that would increase protections for Special Counsel Robert Mueller should they become law. The two bills, S. 1735 by Senators Graham (R – South Carolina) and Booker (D – New Jersey) and S. 1741 by Senators Tillis (R – North Carolina) and Coons (D – Delaware),
The CAP·impact Podcast – Episode 14: Mental Health Legislation Rundown – Part 1
We’re sat down with Adriana Ruelas and Adrienne Shilton on this week’s episode of The CAP·impact Podcast to talk about a number of mental health bills that the Steinberg Institute is working on this year. This week is part one of the conversation, we’ll part two for you next week.
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/episode-14-mental-health-legislation-rundown-part-1
I was initially inspired
The CAP·impact Podcast – Episode 13: Assembly Member Chad Mayes on the Impact of Partisanship
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/episode-13-assembly-member-chad-mayes-on-the-impact-of-partisanship
On today’s episode of The CAP·impact Podcast we talk with McGeorge School of Law Capital Lawyering professor Chris Micheli about some of the institutional challenges to lawmaking in California. We then have a deep dive conversation with Assembly Member Chad Mayes about how our current state of hyper-partisan politics is affecting governing and lawmaking
Legislative Lingo
Legislative Lingo (transcript)
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/legislative-lingo
Today’s topic is one of my favorites, legislative lingo.
It probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise that my colleagues and I, those who work in and around California’s state capital, use a number of different terms or lingo to describe different aspects of the California legislative
California’s Open Meeting Laws
California’s Open Meeting Laws (transcript)
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/californias-open-meeting-laws
Today’s podcast is an overview of local and state open meeting laws here California. California has three types of open meeting laws that apply to local and state governmental entities.
These laws have been adopted over a number of years, and they equally apply to state
Capital Center Director Reacts to Justice Kennedy’s SCOTUS Retirement
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