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CA Republican state senator offers anti-cancel culture bill, Democrats want to cancel her in response

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 21, 2021 13 Comments

A Republican California state senator has introduced a measure making political affiliation a protected class under California's anti-discrimination laws.

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California legislature passes bill lowering penalties for sexual relations with minors

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 06, 2020 25 Comments

Amid soaring temperatures, rolling blackouts, historic wildfires, and continuing pandemic lockdowns, California's legislature is being consistent in its priorities.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/01/27/california-could-cut-off-feds-in-response-to-trump-threats/

California politicos move forward on plans giving reparations to African Americans

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 01, 2020 77 Comments

A good portion of the California is on fire, many of its citizens have suffered from recent blackouts during extreme-heat conditions, and the draconian coronavirus lockdowns are killing small businesses.

Judge halts California’s new “gig worker” law that’s impacting truckers

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 05, 2020 27 Comments

California continues to follow its prime directive, which is the one that specifies that any law enacted must have damaging and/or embarrassing unintended consequences.

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California Supreme Court strikes down law requiring release of tax returns for ballot placement

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 23, 2019 12 Comments

The California Supreme Court has just struck down a state law that required President Trump to release his tax returns in order to appear on the state’s primary ballot.

Justices in Sacramento said that the law – which required all candidates for president and governor to submit five years’ worth of personal income tax returns in order to be included on primary ballots – was unconstitutional.

California savors the unintended consequences of reducing penalties for theft

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 28, 2019 57 Comments

Astute Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in 2014, nearly 60% of California voters approved Proposition 47—ironically known as the "Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act." The measure reduced the classification of most nonviolent property and drug crimes—including theft and fraud for amounts up to $950—from a felony to a misdemeanor.

Menstrual blood tossed during California Senate session, allegedly by anti-vaccine protester

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 15, 2019 15 Comments

The California Senate had to stop their session Friday evening after an anti-vaccine protester allegedly threw a red liquid from the upstairs gallery onto the legislative floor.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks statewide “rent cap”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 01, 2019 30 Comments

As I have posted often, the only law that is truly sacred in California is the one related to unintended consequences.

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San Francisco Weighing Plans for Forced Treatment of Mentally Ill Addicts

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 01, 2019 36 Comments

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently said (with a straight face) that "California was still the envy of the world" in response to the numerous California critics who brought up the homeless problem, feces and syringes in the streets, and rodents infecting people in city halls. While Newsom drags his feet, some cities have chosen to tackle those problems, mainly helping the homeless.

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New California bill would let drivers legally eat roadkill

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 24, 2019 63 Comments

Never let it be said that all the rules that California's legislators create are stale and dull. Sacramento is proposing new rules that would make eating roadkill legal.

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New California rules mandate solar panels on new homes

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 09, 2018 59 Comments

While the Yellow Jackets in Paris are rioting over restrictive new rules, the citizens of California may soon be wearing straight jackets after even more restrictions and mandates flow from Sacramento. Despite a critical housing shortage contributing to the homeless crisis the Golden State is experiencing, bureaucrats have decided to add an expensive, green-justice requirement for new homes.

California slammed with slew of new gun control laws

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 01, 2018 11 Comments

California Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed into law several gun control bills proposed in the wake of several mass shootings that were used by the state legislature as the basis for the new restrictions.

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California passes bill that forces businesses to appoint women to corporate boards

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 01, 2018 48 Comments

California is experiencing a housing crisis, inflation, and delays have just added millions of dollars to the cost of the high speed train to nowhere, and our leading candidate for governor is proposing free healthcare for illegal immigrants.

Stealth bill sneaks in radical changes to California’s criminal justice system

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 07, 2018 39 Comments

The Association of Deputy District Attorneys is sounding the alarm over a measure that was signed into law in California after being hidden in an omnibus health spending bill.

California Senate Proposes Creating a Fake News Advisory Group

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 03, 2018 15 Comments

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is clutching her pearls about the court's decision freeing non-union employees from paying union dues, worried about "weaponizing the First Amendment." Meanwhile, in the #Resistance capital of the nation, the politicians are proposing legislation that is essentially a weapon at the heart of the First Amendment's free speech protections.

California moves to declare coffee “safe” and not a cancer hazard

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 16, 2018 17 Comments

Legal Insurrection readers will recall a California court ruled that coffee shops had a duty to warn patrons of the cancer hazard associated with a component of roasted coffee called acrylamide under the state's notorious Proposition 65 rules.

California Democrats Push Communist Holiday Over U.S. President’s Birthdays

Posted by Katy Grimes on May 14, 2018 23 Comments

California’s elected Democrats are pushing for a communist holiday, at the expense of a U.S. President’s Day. Remember during the Cold War when “better dead than Red?” was the thinking?

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California gas tax repeal ballot initiative clears first major hurdle

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 29, 2018 17 Comments

California's citizens are busy collecting signatures and submitting ballot proposals so that they can change the laws created by the Democratic Party-dominated state legislature. Groups had been hard at work to repeal the onerous gas tax that has been in place since last November. They managed to collect enough signatures, which will mean the proposition to repeal will be on the ballot in time for the state's gubernatorial election this November.

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