The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw firearms back into the nation’s political spotlight.
Voters in November are set to decide whether California should more aggressively prosecute shoplifting and drug use as part of a ballot measure that state officials say will result in more people ending up in prison.
Assemblymember Ash Kalra did something exceptional last week.
He was the only legislator to vote “no” on a controversial piece of legislation while nearly half of the 80 members in the state Assembly – and a majority of the Democrats – did not vote.
Over 50 California-based Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander organizations gathered at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Wednesday for a day of advocacy.