Show in court today because of the unfolding of the Trump National Guard

It has been more than a week since President Donald Trump deployed the California National Guard in Los Angeles without the consent of civil servants and the battle for who has control over troops still rolled through the courtsReport CalMatters’ Mikhail Zinshteyn and Ben ChristopherS

Today, three judges from the 9th US Court of Appeal are expected to hold a hearing whether to let the troops stay in LA under the command of Trump or Keep the Federal Judge’s decision This would end the deployment and returned the troops of Governor Gavin Newo.

The President deployed 4,000 soldiers from the National Guard – who has a double command chain with one leading the president and the other to the governor – referring to a statute in the federal law, which describes in detail specific conditions When the National Guard can fall under the federal power. However, the state claims that clashes between federal agents for the implementation of immigration and protesters protesters against immigration breaks do not meet these conditions.

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In response to some raids made by masked immigration agents, two democratic bey senators in the Bay area presented a bill to ban, with some exceptions, local law enforcement officers to cover their faces. The measure also requires that employees be identified, such as having a badge number or other information easily accessible.

The authors of the bill, Sens. Wiener of San Francisco and Jesse Regina From Oakland, he introduced the measure on Monday at the City Hall of San Francisco. They said that the bill seeks to guarantee public safety by limiting people’s ability to submit masked employees and to increase law enforcement accountability. The bill would make a crime to violate the policy and will not apply to federal law enforcement authorities.

• Wiener: “Law enforcement officers are civil servants. People should be able to see their faces, see who they are, know who they are. … We are really at risk of having, effectively, secret police in this country.”

In the last few months it has been reported, North Carolina., New York and FloridaS Suspecting on Saturday’s shooting Two Minnesota legislatorswho left two dead and two other seriously injured, also introduced themselves to a police officer during the attacks.

In 2022, Newsom brought the former mayor of LA and governor Antonio Villaregosa for a 10-month stay to advise the governor how to process California’s approach to large infrastructure projects.

But the non -profit purpose, loaded with the supervision of the work of vilahaagosa, California ahead, cannot cover his salary on her own and she turned to early undisclosed corporate donors to accumulate fundsWrite Calletatters’ Alexey Kossef and Byrhonda LyonsS

A total of non -profit target raised $ 118,800 from a dozen donors to pay Villaregosa’s salary. Most of the donors, such as the port of San Diego, Sokalgas and Southern California, have shown great interest in state infrastructure projects.

State legislation requires the selected employees, including Newsom, to reveal the so -called payments watched, which are contributions they want for government or charity purposes. But the California striker should not and he provided a donor list only at the request of Calmatters.

Some good governance defenders say that this financial agreement is a “ethically suspicious” way of using watched payments, since it is not explicitly clear what the true sources of funding are. But the Villaregosa, who won more than $ 380,000 for his work, said he had no problem with how much he had won and that “this is a huge return on investment for the state.”

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After Tech Mogul and billionaire Elon Musk gave $ 1 million checks to voters at Swing States last year, a legislator in California wrote a bill to prohibits people from offering cash “With the intention of encouraging” others to vote or register to vote.

Calm Ryan Sabalow He explains that, in addition to the presidential election, Musk has offered $ 1 million checks for this year’s leading Wisconsin Supreme Court, as well as $ 100 of voters who signed a petition opposed to “activist judges”. In lawsuits filed against Musk and his committee on political action related to the distribution, Musk’s lawyers claim that he exercised his right to freedom of expression.

Out of concern that wealthy people will hold more lottery to strengthen turnout, democratic seni. Tom Humberg Santa Anna has a bill that would illegally make the payment of people, including by lotteries or other prize drawing competitions, based on whether the person voted or the status of registration of the voters of the person “. The bill sailed through the Senate with bilateral support and is now before the assembly.

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Despite the state and the federal government to pour billions of dollars to improve the health of the Tahoe region, Taho Lake It is still polluted. On Monday, UC Davis published a report revealing how gloomily the iconic Alpine Lake became. Learn more by Calmatters’ Rachel BeckerS