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Unique Provisions of California’s Budget Bill – Part III

October 24, 2022 5:16 pmOctober 24, 2022 5:20 pm

The California state budget is the largest in the nation, and it also represents the largest bill in page length and number of provisions. While its provisions are too many to cover, there are a number of them that are...

Gov. Newsom’s Blatant Dishonesty on California Public School Test Scores

October 24, 2022 12:35 pmOctober 25, 2022 9:55 am

In a brazenly political move, California Superintendent of Instruction Tony Thurmond and the California Department of Education announced they would not release statewide student test scores until after the November election, the Globe reported in September. “If California’s state test...

Special Session or Extraordinary Session – Which Is It?

October 24, 2022 10:52 amOctober 24, 2022 10:55 am

With an impending special session being called by Governor Gavin Newsom when the California Legislature convenes its 2023-24 Regular Session on December 5, some observers have asked, “Is it called a special session or an extraordinary session?” California Constitution The...

Another Unconstitutional Racial Quota Bites the Dust, but May Not Be Gone for Good

October 24, 2022 7:54 amOctober 24, 2022 8:26 am

Just in time for Halloween, the State of California has properly dealt with zombie legislation. The Governor recently signed AB 1604, “The Upward Mobility Act,” a bill that attempted to bring a racial quota back from the dead when the...

Canon of Statutory Construction — Rule Against Surplusage

October 24, 2022 6:55 amOctober 24, 2022 6:58 am

For purposes of statutory construction, the courts and bill drafters use a series of “canons” to guide them. These include textual canons (intrinsic aids), linguistic presumptions and grammatical conventions, substantive canons, and extrinsic aids. It is impossible to list them...

Is a Red Wave Coming to California in November?

October 24, 2022 2:45 amOctober 24, 2022 6:29 am

Only 417,321 California Democrats have turned in their ballot thus far in this 2022 Midterm Election. For perspective, last year, only 18 days before Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Recall Election, 2,001,844 Democrat voters had already turned in their ballot. This is...

Sacramento’s 50th Murder of 2022: Dangerous Times in the Capitol City

October 24, 2022 2:26 amOctober 25, 2022 7:14 am

An older man who had a regular weekly pinochle game outside the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club in East Sacramento was robbed and murdered at gunpoint Thursday, ostensibly for the cash from the game between friends. He was shot in the face despite...