The U.S. Supreme Court decision today upheld the linchpin of the Affordable Care Act by ruling 5-4 that the government can tax individuals who choose not to buy health insurance. The principal opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts….
*** Update! California stands alone in the nation in dramatically increasing—rather than suppressing—opportunities for voter registration among low-income voters, students and persons with disabilities with yesterday’s signing by Governor Jerry Brown of SB 35, Senator Alex Padilla’s bill to help qualified…
Early this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision on Arizona’s anti-immigrant law, SB 1070. Today, more than sixty organizations comprising faith, law enforcement, civil rights, legal, labor, social service and political organizations united at a press conference to…
The following statement can be attributed to Kevin Keenan, executive director of the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties. Certainly today’s decision could have been worse. On the positive side, the Supreme Court clearly reasserted that the federal government…
We expect a Court decision on SB 1070’s constitutionality in Arizona v. United States any day between now and June 29th or so. We hope for a positive outcome, but most analysts are predicting that the Court will uphold much…