Author: Sherry Bebitch Jeffe & Doug Jeffe

The GOP’s Court of Last Resort

It’s ironic that the Republican establishment, which has long railed against judicial activism, is increasingly looking at the courts as the last bastion of the GOP “resistance”. There is

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi…Again?

Even as Democrats appear to be poised to regain a majority in the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, now the House Minority Leader, has

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A Bridgebuilder Who Will Be Missed

Juxtaposed against the chaos and cruelty that defined last week’s national political scene was an event in Los Angeles that highlighted what real civic engagement

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“Top Two” Takes California

Despite the grumbling of pundits and partisans, California’s top-two primary is almost certainly here to stay.  The voters like it and the system fits the

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Post-Primary Ponderings

After all the hand-wringing by Inside the Beltway pundits and politicos, the so-called “Jungle Primary” nightmare scenario failed to materialize, when none of the highly

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RFK

Fifty years ago, this week, while celebrating his victory in the hard-fought 1968 California Democratic Presidential primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the

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