Charles Andrews resurrects a favorite progressive canard when he sneeringly writes, “Thank you Ronnie Raygun for emptying the asylums.” But the 1960s progressive counter-culture and the state legislature had more
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Claudia Trevisan, in SMDP’s June 25-26 issue, urged passage of the 2021 Judiciary Act, which would add four seats to the Supreme Court.
I urge Ms. Trevisan to
Jeff Prang, Los Angeles County Assessor
There’s an important date that will allow property owners to file an application that may allow for a decrease in their property tax
It’s been seven days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and six since they struck down a 1913 New York law restricting carrying concealed firearms, a ruling
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Currently in Santa Monica, rent increases are capped at $140 for higher rent units. Thus rents below $2300 pay the full 6% raise, but those above pay less than
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Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that we have to have 9 Supreme Court Justices. Nor would it require a Constitutional amendment to add more seats. In fact,
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When Donald Trump was in office, he and Mitch McConnell made three lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. McConnell went so far as to defy Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s
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Right now, the right to abortion care is at risk because of a deliberate, decades-long takeover of the Supreme Court by powerful right-wing extremists. We’re seeing the culmination
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