*Receive updates on our court case against Gov. Newsom After hundreds of pages of briefing, the parties will face off in Court on Oct. 7 in the case of Gallagher and Kiley v. Newsom. At issue: the legality of Newsom’s one-man rule. Assemblyman Gallagher and I are representing ourselves, in pro per, and we have […]
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*Receive updates on our court case against Gov. Newsom Gov. Newsom has just claimed, without evidence, that our lawsuit against him threatens to “throw into chaos current efforts to combat the wildfires now burning across the State.” Such scare tactics are of course a favored authoritarian tool. Yesterday, 33 fresh pages of briefing arrived from
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Gavin Newsom wasted no time attacking Judge Amy Coney Barrett yesterday. But the Governor’s attacks are nothing compared to those of our senior U.S. Senator, Dianne Feinstein. In 2017, Feinstein tried to use Barrett’s Catholic faith against her in one of the ugliest attacks in modern American politics. At the time, I wrote Feinstein a
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*Receive my new blog posts In Politics and the English Language, George Orwell remarked that “political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.” This is an apt job description for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in his role as draftsman of California ballot language. Becerra is tasked with writing the titles and
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*Receive updates on our court case against Gov. Newsom This is why we are suing Gavin Newsom. He’s perfectly willing to torch the Constitution to grab a few headlines. On Wednesday, Newsom issued his most lawless Executive Order yet, banning gas-powered vehicles by 2035. “California will be leading the nation in this effort,” he crowed
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Updated with results (Nov. 4) There are 12 Propositions on your ballot. Here’s my ranking from best to worst, from most beneficial to most dystopian. You’ll notice a theme: the good ones undo the Legislature’s handiwork, the bad ones double down on it. The Good Ones Keeping Uber in California (Prop. 22) Yes: 58.4 %
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In case you thought you dreamt it, yes the State of California has now simply stopped accepting unemployment claims. At 8:52 PM Saturday night, Gov. Newsom’s EDD “strike team” finally struck. Its overdue report comes to the shocking conclusion that the agency needs a complete overhaul. The numbers defy belief: 1.5 million unresolved claims and
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*Sign up here to stay up-to-date on our court case against Gov. Newsom It’s been 200 days since Gavin Newsom declared the State of Emergency. And it’s been exactly four months since I introduced an Assembly Concurrent Resolution to terminate it. I ask Newsom this question: what are the conditions under which your State of
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*Sign up here to stay up-to-date on our court case against Gov. Newsom Gavin Newsom wasted no time jumping into the fray yesterday, exhorting his followers to “VOTE” in a one-word tweet posted a mere four minutes after his tribute to Justice Ginsburg. Then came several shots at various U.S. Senators. But this isn’t the
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*Sign up here to stay up-to-date on our court case against Gov. Newsom Earlier this week, we filed our dispositive motion to end Gavin Newsom’s one-man rule. You can read our brief here. Now, Newsom has filed his own motion to try to wiggle his way out of court, arguing separation of powers is “academic.”
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