California Legislature Moves to Eliminate Money Bail
California Democrats in the State Senate voted Tuesday to eliminate money bail and grant judges control over pre-trial incarcerations.
California Democrats in the State Senate voted Tuesday to eliminate money bail and grant judges control over pre-trial incarcerations.
California Gov. Jerry Brown used his executive powers to issue 36 gubernatorial pardons on Friday, to hit a record of 1,018 pardons in eight years in office.
An anonymous whistleblower has sent a package to Governor Jerry Brown containing pictures allegedly showing senior California Lottery leaders behaving in a lewd manner, including one man placing his head up a woman’s shirt, at a Southern California piano bar. It is the second such missive in two years.
California Governor Jerry Brown warned on Monday — again — about the “inevitable recession” he has predicted for years.
Data suggest that the number of U.S. wildfires has diminished, and the size of fires has increased, partly due to the federal government slashing the number of air tankers, and changing the way fires are fought — not just because of “climate change.”
As even the liberal SFGate.com notes, the vast majority — some 90% — of California wildfires are started by humans behaving extremely stupidly.
Reality TV star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian is asking California Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill, Assembly Bill 2550, that aims to protect the rights of female prison inmates.
California’s Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, the heir apparent to Governor Jerry Brown, seems to be backing away from a single-payer healthcare mandate — after progressive Democrats helped deliver him a victory in the California primary last month.
A federal judge in Sacramento partially struck down one of California’s “sanctuary state” laws, but upheld two others, on Thursday.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s international cap-and-trade pact to tackle climate change is on the verge of imploding following the election earlier this month of a new government in Ontario, Canada, that ran on the promise of dumping the very expensive climate change deal.
Gov. Jerry Brown trumpeted his achievement of steering California through a seven-year financial turnaround as he signed his 16th and final general fund budget of $138.7 billion.
Thirty California Democrats are calling on Governor Jerry Brown to remove the state’s 400 National Guard members from the U.S.-Mexico border because of President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” illegal immigration policy.
California National Guard troops will continue their mission at the U.S. southern border as of Tuesday, a spokesperson for Gov. Jerry Brown’s office told the Palm Springs Desert Sun.
The non-partisan “Truth in Accounting” project, which analyzes government financial reports, has awarded California an “F” grade for claiming surpluses instead of a $269.9 billion deficit.
California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom told Democratic Party officials at a campaign event Wednesday that he would be working hard to “put Nancy Pelosi back in the speakership” of Congress.
California Gov. Jerry Brown endorsed Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to take over his job after this year in a Democratic Party “unity” ceremony in Sacramento on Wednesday.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is scheduled to headline high-dollar Golden State fundraisers with former President Barack Obama and California Governor Jerry Brown just weeks after Tuesday’s primary, which could see Democrats get shut out in key Southern California House races that Pelosi needs to regain her Speakership.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a draconian new water-rationing law that limits per capita daily water usage to less than the amount needed to shower and do a load of laundry.
A spokesman for former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that the “Terminator” will not be voting for a Republican in the June 5 primary.
A new poll suggests that only 31% of registered voters in California want to keep paying for the California High-Speed Rail project, the “bullet train” that Gov. Jerry Brown sees as a major legacy project to fight climate change.
President Donald Trump gave an assist to one of the Republicans battling to to replace once-more retiring Democrat Jerry Brown in November’s election to become the state’s next governor.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday encouraged California Governor Jerry Brown to challenge him in 2020.
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown argued on Tuesday evening that Democrats should seriously consider nominating California Governor Jerry Brown in 2020 to challenge President Donald Trump.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has submitted his May revised 2018-2019 budget, which indicates he will leave office in January with the maximum $13.5 billion rainy-day fund. Brown, a liberal Democrat, has complained that no politician should face the type of
Two groups opposed to California’s Delta Tunnels are alleging that Gov. Jerry Brown violated the Brown Act by improperly lobbying the Metropolitan Water District board members to provide billions of dollars for the project.
Republican candidates battling it out in the race to become California’s next governor may have provided insight at their spring convention into the enthusiasm among California Republicans for opposing “sanctuary” laws.
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers’ Association (HJTA), which has led California’s “Reject The Gas Tax” ballot initiative, delivered 940,000 signatures to Sacramento Tuesday, far above the required 585,407 valid signatures necessary to qualify the gas tax repeal for the November 2018 ballot.
California Governor Jerry Brown (D) said on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence is a bigger problem than illegal immigrants in the migrant caravan who are seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.
President Donald Trump attacked California Governor Jerry Brown in a speech Saturday in Macob County, Michigan, mocking him with the nickname “Moonbeam” and criticizing his state’s “sanctuary” policies.
Two hundred National Guard troops are now set to be stationed in the San Diego and El Centro sectors of the U.S. southern border in California, after a virtual ping-pong rally on whether or not California Gov. Jerry Brown would accept them.
California’s tax revenues are up sharply as the rich pre-pay 2017 income taxes before the Trump tax cut starts limiting the amount of state and local taxes the wealthy can deduct.
Hundreds of additional National Guard troops ordered by the Trump administration may finally make it to the U.S. southern border in California after fierce negotiations between California officials and their federal counterparts.
President Donald Trump praised San Diego County on Thursday for defying California’s “sanctuary state” laws, and criticized Governor Jerry Brown for insisting that 400 National Guard troops deployed in the state not be used to enforce immigration laws.
A poll released by UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, a left-wing organization, found some shocking results in the far-left state of California, including a desire from a clear majority of 59 percent to “increase deportations” of illegal immigrants.
California Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday insisted that California’s “sanctuary state” laws do not benefit criminal illegal aliens.
Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) told Fox News Channel’s Washington correspondent Griff Jenkins his network had exploited the immigration issue using crime. Asking about sanctuary cities laws Griff Jenkins said, “What do you say to
California Governor Jerry Brown blamed “low-life politicians” for a growing backlash against the “sanctuary state” policies he has enacted in his state during an appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.
Just months after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill barring K-12 teachers from being armed for self-defense, Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-9) is pushing a tax on firearms to pay for school security.
Days after California’s governor accepted President Donald Trump’s offer of additional National Guard troops to secure the U.S. southern border, uncertainty remains as to what troops would be doing when and if they are deployed to the U.S. southern border in California.
More cities have joined the revolt against California’s sanctuary state law as opposition grows by the week and cities join a federal government lawsuit against their own state.