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Arnold Schwarzenegger blasts Trump calling him a 'little wet noodle' for his press conference with Putin and scolds him saying 'You sold out our country' Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called Trump a 'wet noodle' for his 'embarrassing' press conference with Russia's President Putin on Monday In Monday's Helsinki Summit, Trump was widely perceived to attack American intel on Russian interference in the 2016 election- denying it happened The Austrian born, American politician questioned what happened to 'strong words,' such as from Reagan when he said 'Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!' Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called out Trump for being a 'wet noodle' in his 'embarrassing' summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin , and scolded him saying 'You sold out our country.'
Authorities have identified the 60-year-old pilot from suburban Sacramento who died in a small airplane crash near Lake Tahoe. The Placer County sheriff says Kenneth Whittall-Scherfee of Carmichael was killed in Tuesday morning's crash south of Truckee that also claimed the life of one passenger and critically injured another.
Where car is king, a gas tax hike pits concern for the poorest versus the need for transportation funding. It's also a bellwether for the Democrats' grip on the state Legislature and in Congress.
The California Democratic Party voted not to endorse longtime incumbent, Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Saturday, and instead overwhelmingly chose her primary challenger, former State Sen. Kevin de Leon. Feinstein, who has served as a California Senator since 1992, only garnered 7 percent of the vote in the 330-member executive board, while de Leon won 65 percent.
California Democrats have declined to endorse Sen. Dianne Feinstein's bid for re-election in 2018, rebuking a powerful senator the party's activist base sees as too conservative for the famously liberal state. Instead, the state party's executive committee voted late Saturday to endorse her challenger, state Sen. Kevin de Leon, in the general election.
The California Democratic Party snubbed U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Saturday by handing its official endorsement and a badly needed boost to state Sen. Kevin de Leon, her longshot Democratic challenger. In backing de Leon, a majority of the party's 360-member executive board ignored Feinstein's calls to stay neutral in the race.
One of my favorite Ronald Reagan quotations illustrates the problem of an ever-growing government: "Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this Earth!" In my decades covering public agencies, I can think of only a handful of rollbacks-and they usually ended up perversely expanding government power.
A historic moment, President Donald Trump nominating judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court, Kavanaugh promising to keep an open mind. Conservatives, like John Gerardi with Right to Life of Central California, applauding the pick, especially when it comes to speculated rulings on abortion legislation.
He is a Member of a Violent White Supremacist Group; So Why is He Working for a Defense Contractor with a Security Clearance? - In partnership with: There likely isn't such a thing as a "typical" violent white extremist in America in 2018. Still, Michael Miselis - a University of California Mueller Taps More Prosecutors to Help With Growing Trump Probe - - Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand.
He is a Member of a Violent White Supremacist Group; So Why is He Working for a Defense Contractor with a Security Clearance? - In partnership with: There likely isn't such a thing as a "typical" violent white extremist in America in 2018. Still, Michael Miselis - a University of California Mueller Taps More Prosecutors to Help With Growing Trump Probe - - Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand.
He is a Member of a Violent White Supremacist Group; So Why is He Working for a Defense Contractor with a Security Clearance? - In partnership with: There likely isn't such a thing as a "typical" violent white extremist in America in 2018. Still, Michael Miselis - a University of California Trump 'angry baby' blimp gets green light to fly over London during president's visit - A giant balloon dubbed "Trump baby" has been given the green light to fly near parliament during the president's UK visit.
The University of California Press Blog has this new posting titled "Justice Kennedy's Contributions to Sentencing and Corrections Reform: An Appreciation." The piece is authored by Margaret Colgate Love, and here are extended excerpts: In 2003, Justice Anthony Kennedy made a dramatic and surprising presentation to the American Bar Association's Annual Meeting in San Francisco in which he raised fundamental questions about the fairness and efficacy of criminal punishment in the United States.
Plaintiff Mark Janus stands outside the Supreme Court after the court rules in a setback for organized labor that states can't force government workers to pay union fees. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption Plaintiff Mark Janus stands outside the Supreme Court after the court rules in a setback for organized labor that states can't force government workers to pay union fees.
While some critics worry the legislation doesn't nearly go far enough, other observers are saying "California could be the bellwether for the privacy movement" after the state legislature on Thursday unanimously passed and Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the nation's toughest digital privacy rules. Businesses must disclose what information it collects, what business purpose it does so for and any third parties it shares that data with.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the state will sue Navient Corp. this week, contending the Delaware-based company financially harmed thousands of Californians. He said the firm systematically and illegally failed to properly service federal student loans by steering borrowers to more expensive repayment plans, failing to tell them how to switch to income-driven repayment plans or how those with disabilities could end their debts and misrepresenting how it handled payments.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, the ideological fulcrum of the high court whose support for gay rights culminated in his 2015 decision striking down state bans against same-sex marriage , is retiring at the pinnacle of his career. Kennedy's retirement will leave a hole for President Donald Trump to fill smack in the middle of the deeply divided court, where all nine justices tend to vote the way the presidents who nominated them expected.
A College Area Pregnancy Services clinic is seen Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in San Diego. The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively put an end to a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion.
Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that millions of public sector workers can stop paying union fees, a group tied to Republican billionaires long opposed to organized labor and its support of the Democratic Party has pledged to build on the landmark ruling to further marginalize employee representation. The conservative nonprofit Freedom Foundation said that starting Wednesday, it will deploy 80 people to a trio of West Coast union bastions: California, Oregon and its home state of Washington.
Seventeen states, including New York and California, sued the Trump administration Tuesday to force it to reunite the thousands of immigrant children and parents it separated at the border, as the legal and political pressure mounted to reconnect families more quickly. "The administration's practice of separating families is cruel, plain and simple," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said in a statement.
California may still get its super strong net neutrality protections after all, as Democrats in the state legislature agree to head back to the negotiating table, after key provisions of the bill On Friday, the bill's author, state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, said he and fellow Democrat, Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, the chair of the committee, will begin negotiating next week to fix the bill to ensure the protections that were weeded out in the committee process are added back into the legislation. "We've agreed to make a good faith effort to make amendments to the bill in order to pass strong net neutrality," he said in an interview.