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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Mientras el presidente electo Donald Trump se prepara para asumir el cargo, los demócratas de California están desarrollando nuevos planes para fortalecer las protecciones contra el aborto en el estado. El Fiscal General Rob Bonta anunció hoy dos propuestas legislativas destinadas a salvaguardar el aborto con medicamentos y...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, California Democrats are developing new plans to strengthen the state’s abortion protections. Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced two legislative proposals aimed at safeguarding medication abortion and enforcing the state’s Reproductive Privacy Act, which ensures individuals have the right to make...
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Alexei Koseff CalMatters Like many new political candidates at the time, Rebecca Bauer-Kahan first ran for the state Assembly in 2018 because she was troubled by the election of then-President Donald Trump and wanted California to fight back against his administration. Six years later, that dynamic has flipped on...
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Despite the fact that the chances of success are practically zero, the Democratic majority in the Senate decided to revive the bipartisan immigration reform bill that was blocked by Republicans this year. Let us remember that the plan, negotiated by a handful of Democrats and Republicans, would have allowed...
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters To counter recent legislation that would step up penalties on petty crimes, a group of progressive state lawmakers this morning offered a rival approach, focusing instead on more services for offenders and survivors of crimes. They are backing a new legislative package — dubbed “#SmartSolutions” — to address...
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Marisa Kendall & Julie Cart CalMatters Dando un golpe al gobernador Gavin Newsom, los legisladores demócratas rechazaron la semana pasada su ambicioso intento de reformar la ley ambiental estatal y facilitar la construcción de grandes proyectos de infraestructura en California. En una votación de 3-0, un comité de presupuesto...
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Marisa Kendall & Julie Cart CalMatters Dealing a blow to Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democratic legislators last week shot down his ambitious attempt to reform state environmental law and make it easier to build big infrastructure projects in California. In a 3-0 vote, a Senate budget committee found Newsom’s package...
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When a draft Supreme Court ruling that would overturn the constitutional right to abortion leaked Monday night, Democratic leaders in California reacted swiftly with shock, grief and fury. It didn’t take long for the personal devastation to turn political. By Wednesday morning, Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is running for...
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Faced with the imminent possibility that immigration reform could not be approved this year, due to internal disagreements between Democrats, as well as Republican opposition, President Joe Biden presented a new shield to protect the hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries of the program deferred action for childhood arrivals, known...
Kristen Hwang CalMatters Mientras el presidente electo Donald Trump se prepara para asumir el cargo, los demócratas de California están desarrollando nuevos planes para fortalecer las protecciones contra el aborto en el estado. El Fiscal General Rob Bonta anunció hoy dos propuestas legislativas destinadas a salvaguardar el aborto con medicamentos y...
Alexei Koseff CalMatters Like many new political candidates at the time, Rebecca Bauer-Kahan first ran for the state Assembly in 2018 because she was troubled by the election of then-President Donald Trump and wanted California to fight back against his administration. Six years later, that dynamic has flipped on...
Despite the fact that the chances of success are practically zero, the Democratic majority in the Senate decided to revive the bipartisan immigration reform bill that was blocked by Republicans this year. Let us remember that the plan, negotiated by a handful of Democrats and Republicans, would have allowed...
Yue Stella Yu CalMatters To counter recent legislation that would step up penalties on petty crimes, a group of progressive state lawmakers this morning offered a rival approach, focusing instead on more services for offenders and survivors of crimes. They are backing a new legislative package — dubbed “#SmartSolutions” — to address...
Marisa Kendall & Julie Cart CalMatters Dando un golpe al gobernador Gavin Newsom, los legisladores demócratas rechazaron la semana pasada su ambicioso intento de reformar la ley ambiental estatal y facilitar la construcción de grandes proyectos de infraestructura en California. En una votación de 3-0, un comité de presupuesto...
When a draft Supreme Court ruling that would overturn the constitutional right to abortion leaked Monday night, Democratic leaders in California reacted swiftly with shock, grief and fury. It didn’t take long for the personal devastation to turn political. By Wednesday morning, Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is running for...
Faced with the imminent possibility that immigration reform could not be approved this year, due to internal disagreements between Democrats, as well as Republican opposition, President Joe Biden presented a new shield to protect the hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries of the program deferred action for childhood arrivals, known...