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2 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Nicole Norman
Authorities said they suspected Sabrina Cervantes was under the influence of drugs when she got into a two-vehicle collision near the state Capitol. State Sen. Sabrina Cervantes's drug panel taken a day after her DUI citation came back clean. | Juliana Yamada/AP SACRAMENTO, California — State Sen.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Nicole Norman
SACRAMENTO, California — State Sen. Sabrina Cervantes on Wednesday released the negative results of a urine test done the day after she was cited for driving under the influence came back clean, offering them up as proof that she had been wrongly accused. “The accusation that I was driving under the influence is utterly false,” Cervantes said in a statement to POLITICO.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Lindsey Holden |Nicole Norman
Sacramento police allege state Sen. Sabrina Cervantes was under the influence of drugs when she was involved in a two-car collision near the Capitol. | Juliana Yamada/AP RELEASE THE TAPE: The plot twists continue in the ongoing saga of Sabrina Cervantes’ DUI case.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Nicole Norman |Lindsey Holden
Sacramento police deny accusations from Sabrina Cervantes that she was “accosted” by officers in the hospital. The Sacramento County District Attorney's Office is waiting for toxicology test results to determine whether to charge state Sen. Sabrina Cervantes with a DUI. | Juliana Yamada/AP SACRAMENTO, California — The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office is awaiting lab results before making a decision about whether to charge state Sen.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Nicole Norman |Melanie Mason |Lindsey Holden
Sabrina Cervantes, who was taken to the hospital after a collision Monday afternoon, forcefully denied she was driving under the influence. State Sen. Sabrina Cervantes was detained and cited on suspicion of drunk driving, an allegation she strongly disputes.
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1 month ago | 
politico.com | Lindsey Holden |Nicole Norman
In a lawsuit, a coalition of local government officials say the Trump administration unlawfully imposed unprecedented new conditions related to immigration, gender ideology and abortion on homelessness grant programs. San Francisco is joining with other local governments to sue President Donald Trump's administration over new homelessness grant requirements.
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1 month ago | 
politico.com | Nicole Norman |Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner |Melanie Mason
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco addresses supporters of President Donald Trump during a rally in Coachella, California on October 12, 2024. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images THE BUZZ: GRAND OLD SHOWDOWN — Steve Hilton’s now-official campaign for the governor’s mansion has locked him and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — the only other major Republican in the race — in a battle for the heart of the California GOP.
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2 months ago | 
politico.com | Lindsey Holden |Nicole Norman
Former California state lawmaker Bill Essayli, a Republican from Riverside County, posted this photo in an announcement about his departure from the statehouse. | Shawn Lewis, former chief of staff to Bill Essayli SO LONG, FAREWELL: California Democrats will no longer have one of their most vocal adversaries yelling in their ears — sometimes literally — now that Republican Assemblymember Bill Essayli has left to serve as President Donald Trump’s next U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.
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2 months ago | 
politico.com | Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner |Nicole Norman
Border Patrol vehicles sit parked along border wall fencing between the U.S. and Mexico in Jacumba Hot Springs, San Diego County, California, on Aug. 1, 2024. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images THE BUZZ: FIGHT FOR YOUR LEFT — Democratic resistance to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is surging back not just in California’s Democratic bastions but at the state’s politically purple Southern border.
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2 months ago | 
politico.com | Melanie Mason |Nicole Norman
People stand in line to attend Ro Khanna’s town hall event in Bakersfield, Calif., March 23, 2025. | Melanie Mason/POLITICO Town halls are, once again, in the political zeitgeist, much like the Tea Party-inspired outpouring of 2009 or the 2017 backlash to the efforts to gut Obamacare. Republican leadership is advising members to avoid in-person meetings; those who forged ahead anyway are rewarded with viral clips of booing crowds Meanwhile, Sanders and Rep.
