Last night we received the news that Judge Heckman’s ruling in our favor is now final. She refused Newsom’s request to delay the Permanent Injunction against him: “The Governor’s request for stay of enforcement of the judgment is denied.” You can read the final ruling here. The Judge brushed aside Newsom’s attempt to change her […]
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*Receive updates on our case against Gov. Newsom Gavin Newsom has asked the Judge to put the Permanent Injunction against him on hold for “a minimum of two weeks.” Which makes me wonder what he has in mind for the next two weeks. We’ve filed a strong objection to any such free pass from the
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*Receive updates on the case Today Gov. Newsom plans to close businesses and stop schools from opening, even though yesterday he didn’t say either was responsible for new cases. This erratic leadership is why California is struggling as much as any state. Meanwhile, Newsom says he will appeal the Superior Court’s ruling against him “as
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*Receive updates on the case Many people have asked if our court victory over Governor Newsom is a precedent to challenge the lockdown. The answer is yes: the Pacific Legal Foundation just filed a lawsuit using the same legal theory to invalidate the color-coded “Blueprint.” But before getting to that, here’s how Newsom responded to
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What a week. I’ll devote a full post to the court ruling in a couple days. In the meantime, the press coverage has been fairly accurate, and I’ve compiled some of it here. I’ll leave it to others to make sense of what’s going on nationally. Here are my initial thoughts on the results yesterday
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*Receive updates on the case Today, a California Superior Court ruled in favor of me and fellow legislator James Gallagher in our lawsuit challenging Gavin Newsom’s abuse of power. You can read the ruling here. The Judge ruled that Governor Newsom violated the State Constitution by issuing Executive Order N-67-20. More importantly, she found good
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I’m glad the Governor’s children can resume a high-quality in-classroom education. Every California child should have that same opportunity. But instead, new reasons are being invented to keep schools closed. Sacramento unions are now demanding that even schools that can safely open remain closed so that no one gets “a head start.” Other states are
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All year, Gavin Newsom has screamed at Californians some variation of this tweet: Yes, do vote. That’s self-evident. The franchise is the lynchpin of democracy. But voting in itself wasn’t the great American innovation. Self-government was. And Californians know all too well that once you vote, Newsom will say “see you in two years” and
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*Receive updates on our case against Gov. Newsom We are at a critical juncture in our fight against Gavin Newsom’s one-man rule, on three fronts: the lawsuit, yesterday’s Conference of North State Representatives, and the election. The Case: To state the obvious, it’s taking longer than we thought to get a decision. Many people have
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*Receive updates on the case It’s been almost a week since the trial and we still don’t have a ruling. But at Gov. Newsom’s press conference today, the LA Times asked him about our lawsuit, asking if he’s “ruling by fiat” and if he’ll “be more measured in the future.” Here’s how Newsom defended himself,
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