Lawmakers, prosecutors urge California Supreme Court to overturn death penalty A state Supreme Court lawsuit claiming California’s death penalty law is incurably racist and should be overturned has drawn some high-powered support from two of the court’s former justices, as well ... 04/24/2024 - 11:45 am | View Link
Will a state supreme court challenge end California’s ‘racist’ record-setting death row for good? California has more people on death row than any other state in the country — and a governor who opposes capital punishment. A new audacious legal challenge to the death penalty in the state supreme ... 04/24/2024 - 5:41 am | View Link
Supreme Court to examine a federal-state conflict over emergency abortions The case comes from Idaho, where the law banning abortions is sufficiently strict that the state's leading hospital system says its patients are at risk. 04/24/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
California McDonald's franchisee shares struggle with 'unprecedented' impact of new minimum wage California is forcing fast food chains to get creative to afford the state's new $20 minimum wage. One McDonald's franchise owner, Scott Rodrick, is considering higher menu prices and reduced ... 04/12/2024 - 6:54 am | View Link
Ariz. attorney general wants California to be 'safe haven' for abortion providers after state Supreme Court ruling PHOENIX — Arizona’s attorney general said she will do all she can to mitigate the impacts of the Civil War-era abortion ban that the state’s Supreme Court ... can appeal the ruling in ... 04/11/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Threats of jail time.
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing that cannabis be reclassified from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a classification that comes with steep penalties, to the less severe Schedule III, for drugs with significant medical use. If the White House Office of Management and Budget approves the decision, the DEA would be able to offer its proposal for public comment.
Eight years ago, in his 2016 run for president, Donald Trump said that women who have abortions should be criminally charged. “There has to be some form of punishment,” Trump said at the time. The comment caused a firestorm and his campaign walked it back within hours. It marked one of the few times that Trump recanted.
Early Tuesday morning, Columbia student protesters took over a building on campus, pledging not to leave until their demands—for the university to divest from Israel, financial transparency from Columbia’s endowment, and amnesty for pro-Palestinian protesters—are met.
The group of “autonomous protesters” took over Hamilton Hall, an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus, shortly after midnight, according to a media advisory from Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group that organized the Gaza Solidarity Encampment over the past few weeks.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial fined the former president $9,000 on Tuesday for violating a gag order—and he warned Trump that any further violations might result in jail time.
Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for his role in a 2016 scheme to cover up an alleged extra-marital affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.