Ben Christopher

1 week ago | calmatters.org | Ben Christopher |Mikhail Zinshteyn

Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for WhatMatters to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State. In 1994, a 26-year-old Alex Padilla, sporting a newly minted engineering degree from MIT, was back at home living with his parents in the San Fernando Valley when that fall’s most heated ballot measure campaign dragged him into a life of politics.

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Mikhail Zinshteyn |Ben Christopher

A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals seemed at least open to that argument in a remote video hearing today, unlike a lower court judge who ruled against the administration last week. The arguments played out as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ended a curfew that she imposed after President Trump sent the National Guard and U.S. Marines to the city in response to immigration protests. California’s Democratic leadership, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, has called the deployment unnecessary.

2 weeks ago | desertsun.com | Mikhail Zinshteyn |Ben Christopher

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump’s deployment of California National Guard soldiers to continue while it considers Trump’s challenge to a lower court’s decision that found he illegally mobilized those troops without consulting Gov. Gavin Newsom. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the case June 17.

2 weeks ago | davisenterprise.com | Mikhail Zinshteyn |Ben Christopher

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2 weeks ago | kpbs.org | Mikhail Zinshteyn |Ben Christopher

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A federal judge halted President Trump’s deployment of California National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles, finding that he broke the law in ordering them to put down urban unrest without consulting Gov. Gavin Newsom.