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
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),
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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
Yesterday, President Trump announced that Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be the nominee to fill the seat on the Supreme Court vacated by the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Right after the news about the nomination broke, McGeorge School of Law Professor Clark Kelso spoke with KCRA about the nomination and what to expect from the nominee
Legislative Lingo (transcript)
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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 (transcript)
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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
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
This week’s LIVE episode of The CAP·impact Podcast was recorded a little while back at the Sterling Hotel here in Sacramento. Every year, the Capital Center for Law & Policy hosts the Mike Belote Endowed Capital Lecture. This year’s topic, and today’s episode, was Journalism in the Era of Fake News.
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The discussion
The Role of State Agencies in Policy Making (transcript)
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Today’s podcast is about state agencies and their role in public policy development. California’s agencies – including departments, board, and commissions – engage in a fair amount of public policy making through both their rule making authority, as well as their interpretation
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This week’s episode of The CAP·impact Podcast features a case study in one of Ray LeBov’s Rules for Effective Lobbying: not letting the perfect become the enemy of the good. Today we are talking with folks from two organizations that regular readers and podcast listeners will be familiar with – the California Partnership