by Kent Scheidegger · Apr 27, 2021 3:49 pm
The WSJ has this editorial:
A well-known politician on Friday denounced “self-described anarchists who engage in regular criminal destruction” and want to “burn,” “bash” and “intimidate.” He called for “higher bail” and “tougher pretrial restrictions” on rioters. And he pleaded with the public to cooperate with police and identify miscreants: “Our job is to unmask them, arrest them, and prosecute them.”
Donald Trump ? Sheriff Arpaio ? Nope.
by Kent Scheidegger · Apr 27, 2021 2:58 pm
Video of Anne Marie Schubert’s announcement for the California Attorney General race is available on YouTube.
by Michael Rushford · Apr 27, 2021 11:44 am
Career prosecutor and twice elected Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced her candidacy for California Attorney General Monday (April 26). Schubert, who as a Deputy formed the first cold case unit and served as its first prosecutor, pioneered DNA investigations which lead to the arrest and her office’s conviction of the Golden State Killer, who raped dozens of women and murdered at least thirteen across California roughly forty years ago. A self-described tough-on-crime prosecutor, Schubert contrasted herself with newly appointed Attorney General Rob Bonta, a progressive former Assemblyman who has supported multiple pro-criminal measures which have flooded California communities with habitual criminals.
by Bill Otis · Apr 22, 2021 10:32 am
Sometimes ridicule does a better job of destruction than a frontal attack can hope to do. I found that out today as Charles Cooke from the National Review mercilessly lampoons the White House’s idiotic response to a white police officer’s preventing the stabbing death of a black teenage girl by shooting her assailant (which was the only practical alternative he had).
Cooke’s piece is titled, “In Defense of Teenage Knife Fighting,” with the subtitle, “Since when do we need the cops to intervene in the recreational stabbings of our youth?”
by Amber Westbrook · Apr 15, 2021 3:30 pm
The former Mayor of Sebastopol, California, Robert Jacob was arrested this week on charges, according to this Fox News story: of committing lewd acts with a child ages 14 to 15, participating in sexual penetration of a child under 16, making a child under 16 available to another person for lewd or lascivious acts, and distribution of child pornography. Jacob served as a member of the Sebastopol City Council in 2012 and was elected Mayor in 2013. Jacob served one term and did not run for reelection. Jacob’s term as Mayor and his success as a cannabis businessman, discussed in this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, noted that “He [Jacob] outspent rivals by running the most expensive campaign in city history to win.” Jacobs is also known as a founder of a medical marijuana dispensary. The question here, is how did an individual willing to molest children get elected to a position of such power? Doesn’t anyone vet politicians anymore?
by Kent Scheidegger · Mar 26, 2021 4:33 pm
When the number of people being shot and killed is rising sharply and misguided city policies are a substantial factor in the increase, what should the city council do? Double down with more of the same? Rafael Mangual has this article with the above title in the City Journal. Continue reading . . .
by Amber Westbrook · Mar 24, 2021 11:38 am
Yesterday Senator Melissa Melendez presented Senate Bill 350 to the California Senate Public Safety Committee in hopes it would be met with support. However, that was not the case for the majority of democrats on the committee. As defined in the article written yesterday by Katy Grimes of the California Globe, “[This bill] would require a court to issue an advisory to individuals convicted of selling or distributing controlled substances, to serve as a warning that if their action result in another person’s death, they could be charged with murder.” The goal of this bill in California is to address the high rise in Fentanyl-related deaths by holding the drug dealers accountable to the same degree the People v. Watson holds a drunk driver responsible under ‘implied malice’ (see last week’s blog post for more detail).
by Kent Scheidegger · Feb 3, 2021 11:38 am
The Los Angeles Times printed this editorial last Friday, predictably defending LA DA George Gascón and blasting the Association of Deputy District Attorneys’ lawsuit. The editorial is titled, “Let George Gascón do the job L.A. voters asked him to.” But did they ask him to do what he is now doing?
The Metropolitan News-Enterprise, a much smaller LA paper that focuses on judicial issues, responded yesterday with an editorial titled “Los Angeles Times Defends Gascón With Flawed Arguments.” Continue reading . . .
by Kent Scheidegger · Jan 11, 2021 1:12 pm
Many people have called for the vigorous prosecutions of the rioters who stormed the Capitol last week. What should they be charged with? Sadie Gurman and Aruan Viswanatha have this report for the WSJ. Continue reading . . .
by Kent Scheidegger · Jan 5, 2021 10:21 am
Dan Walters, a veteran commentator on California politics, has this column with the above title at CalMatters on the California Supreme Court decision last week in In re Gadlin. See also my post on the decision last week. Walters writes:
A political saga that began more than four decades ago came full circle last week when the state Supreme Court, including four Jerry Brown appointees, indirectly upbraided the former governor.
Unanimously, the court declared that Proposition 57, a major criminal justice overhaul sponsored by Brown and overwhelmingly passed by voters in 2016, did what its critics said it would do, not what Brown told voters.
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