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Tracy Miller, a veteran prosecutor, was retaliated against after reporting sexual harassment by a politically powerful insider in the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, leading to her filing a landmark lawsuit against the office for its failure to protect its employees and uphold justice.
A recent poll on Nextdoor shows that the Village Farms proposal is overwhelmingly unpopular and has no chance of passing, with only 15% support and a one in 100 quintillion chance of passing.
Local governments often avoid democratic constraint by soliciting public input and hosting workshops, but ultimately voting the way they intended to all along, which is not true democracy.
Despite Mayor Daniel Lurie’s personal tour of the unsafe housing conditions in Bayview-Hunters Point, Related California continues to be awarded public contracts and subsidies, raising questions about the City’s commitment to holding corporate landlords accountable.
Calls to abolish ICE have surged after an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, reopening a volatile internal debate within the Democratic Party and prompting some lawmakers to introduce the Abolish ICE Act.
The Supreme Court ruled in Barrett v. United States that a defendant may not receive two firearm convictions for a single criminal act when the offenses are closely related, upholding the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
A comprehensive 2025 evidence review by Fair and Just Prosecution has found that pervasive misinformation has led to harmful policies, public panic, and preventable deaths in the fentanyl crisis, and that public health strategies are working to reduce fentanyl-linked deaths.
A federal judge has dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel California to turn over its full, unredacted statewide voter registration list, rejecting what voting rights groups described as an unlawful attempt to obtain voters’ sensitive personal information.
A Yolo County Superior Court judge granted judicial diversion to an accused person facing multiple misdemeanor charges who is participating in an addiction treatment program, rejecting prosecution arguments that the accused’s criminal history made them unsuitable for diversion.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Ibram X. Kendi both argue that racism is not just a matter of individual prejudice, but a systemic issue that requires active anti-racism and structural change, rather than passive neutrality.
Andre Brown, who was convicted of a 1999 double attempted murder, had his 40-year sentence converted to two 20-year concurrent terms, meaning he will not have to return to prison, after a resentencing motion was granted due to ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing.
The Village Farms project in Davis lacks a comprehensive flood plan and relies on unproven engineering design principles, posing a major flood risk to the city and its residents.
Local governments often engage in performative democracy, offering residents access to decision-making without granting them authority, while maintaining control and limiting public input to advisory gestures.
Senate Bill 895 would place a $23 billion bond before voters in November 2026 to fund scientific research across California, while requiring discounts on drugs developed with public funding, and is supported by Eleni Kounalakis, the University of California Office of the President, and the United Auto Workers Region 6 and the Union of American Physicians and Dentists.
The DHS Use of Force Oversight Act would require the Department of Homeland Security to adopt and abide by formal, enforceable standards governing the use of force and de-escalation by its agents, creating new mechanisms for reporting and congressional oversight.
The California Department of Justice has concluded that there is insufficient evidence to prove that the officer involved in the shooting of Victor Nava acted without the intent to defend herself and others, and has made two policy recommendations to the South Gate Police Department.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to rescind media protections led to an FBI raid on Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home, which journalist Lauren Harper argued was an unnecessary action based on a sham pretext and part of the Trump administration’s war on press freedom.
Three former DOJ trial attorneys have criticized the Trump administration for canceling an agreement between Minneapolis and the DOJ that required police to de-escalate whenever possible, arguing that it undermined accountability and led to the fatal shooting of Renee Good.
The City Council must deny certification of the Village Farms EIR due to its inadequate and flawed nature, which would expose the City to liability and surrender its leverage to correct course on the disastrous project.