President Trump will address the nation tonight. If he takes legal action, it will likely be to declare a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act of 1976. The statute gives him wide leeway to decide what circumstances constitute an emergency. He will declare the emergency to take advantage of two additional statutes, 10 USC
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
State law can trump the President’s pardon power
With the federal indictments of former Trump campaign officials, the President’s pardon power – which he has tweeted about and used, to exonerate Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio – is again in the news. While questions exist as to the scope of the President’s power, like whether he can pardon himself,
UPLR: In Session 007 – AB 1528
By: Trevor Wong
In 1996, Californians passed Prop 215 allowing qualified medical patients the right to cultivate and possess marijuana. In 2016, Californians passed Prop 64 allowing adults over the age of 21 to use marijuana recreationally. In the twenty intervening years, the Obama Administration gave California and other states assurances that if they developed