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“I think the courts will be quite receptive. Courts hate redistricting,” said Justin Leavitt, a constitutional law professor and redistricting expert at Loyola Law School. “They don’t mind adjudicating cases, but they really don’t…
“Gov. Newsom was riding very high about 10 months ago,” said Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson. “Now, the picture looks very different. He does look, in some ways, vulnerable.” Levinson says Gov. Newsom…
Despite massive restrictions on businesses and restaurants for fear of spreading COVID, Los Angeles Superior Court is still holding some in-person sessions for evictions and traffic trials. Just last month, three LA County Superior…
“You don’t want to have the last person in America standing who’s a member of the bar and willing to take your case as your representative,” said Jessica Levinson, director of Loyola Law School’s…
Even if the Justice Department did not reject a state’s map, the preclearance requirement at least somewhat constrained partisan excesses, “because everyone knew there was going to be a review,” says Justin Levitt, a…
“George made a promise to be transparent,” said Loyola Law Professor Chris Hawthorne, who is the director of Loyola’s Juvenile Innocence and Fair Sentencing clinic, and one of the cluster of attorneys whom WitnessLA consulted about Judge…
After spending much of their opening arguments laying out the timeline leading up the January 6 attack on the Capitol, House impeachment managers played new video showing how close the rioters got to lawmakers….
