Last night I reported that, according to court transcripts from a December 15 proceeding, LA District Attorney George Gascon attempted, through his special advisor Mario Trujillo, to offer a “sweetheart” plea deal to Rudy Dominguez, a gang member charged with murdering one man and shooting another during a drive-by (neither...
We’ve reported on the individual Deputy District Attorneys and judges in Los Angeles County who are fighting back against George Gascon’s nonsensical directives in which he decreed a number of misdemeanors that would no longer be prosecuted, instituted blanket, office-wide policies against charging juveniles as adults, against seeking even life...
Every day it becomes more clear that George Gascon will do whatever it takes to force his insane directives and policies on unwilling Deputy DA’s, judges, and victims’ families. Now, apparently, he’s enlisted his Special Advisor, Deputy DA Mario Trujillo (whom he’s used in the past to bully wayward DDA’s)...
On Saturday, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) posted a video wishing people a “Happy Kwanzaa” and recounting her childhood memories of the holiday. Her purported memories raised a few eyebrows because — well, you’ll catch on quickly.
In the video, Harris said:
Happy holidays, everyone. I wanted to take...
FILE – In this Dec. 14, 1999 file photo, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown smiles while greeting friends for dinner at Fisherman’s wharf in San Francisco. Mayor Gavin Newsom is leaving his post early after winning election last week to serve as California’s next lieutenant governor. Newsom’s victory cut...
As RedState exclusively exposed, Soros DA Diana Becton of Contra Costa County, California is involved in an effort to transform the criminal justice system in her county. One of her new policies is to require that both police officers and her own Deputy DA’s go through a complicated, subjective flowchart...
FILE – In this Aug. 28, 2019, file photo, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, speaks at rally calling for passage of her measure to limit when companies can label workers as independent contractors at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. National groups representing freelance journalists and photographers on Tuesday, Dec. 17,...
As a conservative Californian (native and proud of it!), I’m often told that efforts to turn the state around or turn it red are a waste of time, and that there’s no use because too many of my fellow Californians are liberal and dense. My usual reply is that there...
In this Jan. 17, 2017 photo, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler speaks during a press conference in Portland, Ore. Wheeler is condemning the actions of some protesters after a May Day march took a violent turn in Portland Monday, May 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
As my colleague Ship...
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, accompanied by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, of Lakewood, talks to reporters after the Assembly approved her bill to give new wage and benefit protections to the so-called gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. The bill now goes...
This Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, still image taken from video released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, shows Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva taking questions at a late-night news conference about the condition of two Sheriff’s deputies in Compton, Calif. Authorities searched Sunday for a gunman who shot and...
In this Aug. 15, 2019, photo Veena Dubal, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, talks with user experience researcher Danny Spitzberg in San Francisco. Dubal has interviewed dozens of tech workers involved in organizing and activism as part of her research on social change....
San Francisco resident Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” fame doesn’t often get political on his show or on social media, but he is an advocate of people being able to work in the field they choose – and in the manner they choose. On Labor Day he shared a lengthy...
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
President Trump held a Black Economic Empowerment Forum Friday in Atlanta, unveiling his plan to help black Americans (covered by my colleague Jeff Charles here). In addition to being one of...
FILE – In this May 19, 2018 file photo, Amy Coney Barrett, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit judge, speaks during the University of Notre Dame’s Law School commencement ceremony at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. Barrett is one of four judges thought...
FILE – In this Jan. 11, 2018, file photo, Chinese and American flags fly outside of a JW Marriott hotel in Beijing. Politics weighs more heavily on foreign companies in China than it has in nearly three decades, as companies face pressure on many sides from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s...
Governor Newsom announces major climate initiative, September 23, 2020. (Screenshot via California Gavin Newsom)
Undeterred by the demonstrable failure of the “reimagining” of California’s power grid he and his predecessor spearheaded and the money pit that is the bullet train, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Wednesday that...
President Donald Trump pumps his fist after signing an executive order on protecting Florida coastline from offshore drilling after delivering remarks on the environment at Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in Jupiter, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Before departing for a campaign rally in Fayetteville,...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg waves as she is introduced during a visit to Stanford University, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, in Stanford, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Former President Barack Obama was one of the notable figures who offered tributes of Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks back to his office after speaking on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Senator “Cocaine Mitch” McConnell wasted no time in sending the left into a complete furor, by announcing at...
Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden made a statement after the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reading from a script and opining that whoever wins the presidential election should nominate her replacement.
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg stood for all of us," Joe Biden says, following her passing....
Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James pauses during an interview during media day at the NBA basketball team’s practice facility Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, in El Segundo, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
As a kid growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1980’s, June meant one...
