• Column | The constitution, the courts, and nationwide injunctions

    Daily Journal
    May 12, 2025

    (Subscription required) The Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in three consolidated cases challenging President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, focusing narrowly on whether the lower courts exceeded their constitutional authority under Article III by issuing nationwide injunctions that extended relief beyond the parties before them.

  • 9th Circuit upholds felon gun ban in case headed to high court

    Daily Journal
    May 12, 2025

    (Subscription required) A 9th Circuit en banc panel upholds a federal law barring nonviolent felons from possessing firearms, reversing a prior ruling and deepening a circuit split, with experts predicting a likely Supreme Court appeal.

  • Immigrant children face legal cases without lawyers. A CA bill could change that

    Sacramento Bee
    May 12, 2025

    Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, in February introduced Assembly Bill 1261, which would require the state to pay organizations to provide a lawyer to all unaccompanied immigrant children in California. During the last fiscal year, alone, more than 10,800 of them were released into the care of family members and other sponsors across the state after they were taken into custody by immigration authorities.

  • Opinion| Free speech shouldn't be a weapon against judicial independence

    Daily Journal
    May 12, 2025

    (Subscription required) Judge LaDoris Cordell's complaint to the state bar challenges DA Brooke Jenkins' pattern of publicly attacking judges for lawful rulings she dislikes--an issue of judicial integrity, not free speech.