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The theme of the third congressional hearing on the Jan. 6 insurrection was unmistakable: John Eastman was not just a peripheral figure in the panel's investigation, but a main character. If Eastman was tuning in, though, the proceedings may have struck him as something else — a bizarro episode of…

LOS ANGELES — As his wife stood behind him and held back tears, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday called the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade sickening and beckoned women in other states to California, their “sanctuary” for free abortion care.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democratic legislative leaders, hoping to solidify the long-term right in California to abortions and contraceptives, will introduce a bill Wednesday asking voters to enshrine those protections in the state Constitution.

Got a Supreme Court precedent you don't like? Is there a liberal decision that's always stuck in your craw? Think the court has flipped too far to the left and needs to be flipped back?

Amid signs of internal discord, the U.S. Supreme Court is waiting until the bitter end to do the largest share of its work in more than 70 years.

It was a monster scoop of extraordinary newsworthiness if there ever was one, on a matter of intense public interest for millions of Americans.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge’s extraordinary assertion last week that former President Donald Trump likely committed felonies connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection marked a milestone for the House committee investigating the attack.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Antoinette Harrell has spent nearly three decades of her life verifying cases of slavery in the South before and after emancipation.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and a year after the fatal spa shootings in Atlanta that targeted and killed people of Asian descent, reports of anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander violence and bigotry have increased. Stop AAPI Hate, an organization tracking and reporting on these acts of racism that…

For my earlier post on the incident, see here; three follow-ups: [1.] Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley Law)—one of the most prominent liberal constitutional law scholars in the country—and Chancellor Howard Gillman (UC Irvine) had a Washington Post op-ed, "Free speech doesn't mean hecklers get to shut down campus debate"; an…