The Orange County Register: The end of the Judicial Council’s unlawful eviction ban provides key civics lesson

The California Judicial Council, which crafts rules for the California court system, enacted an emergency rule to block eviction hearings in response to COVID-19. Oliver Dunford explains why the judicial branch’s attempt at policy-making sets a dangerous precedent.

The Hill: Why governors shouldn’t have unchecked emergency powers

Reasonable minds may disagree on how to respond to COVID-19, but we can all agree that states should be enabled to protect public health and safety during an emergency.

But since March, governors throughout the country have asserted a near-limitless authority to control almost every aspect of our lives under broad legislative grants of power. Luke Wake points out that they are not implementing the law when they pronounce new rules. Instead, they are trying to make law.

New lawsuit: Parents fight racial balancing efforts that deny educational opportunities

Montgomery County Public Schools is Maryland’s largest public school district and one of the best in the state, with a robust magnet program for gifted and talented students. The district recently changed its admissions criteria for magnet programs at four middle schools, ostensibly to make the programs more “equitable.”

But the changes have created nearly impossible admissions criteria for many of the district’s highest-performing Asian American students and a sharp decline in their admissions, while every other racial group has seen an uptick. Now, parents are fighting back with a federal lawsuit.

California passed a law trying to “fix” AB 5 but simply showed the damage it’s causing freelancers

The California Legislature has been busy tinkering with AB 5—the disastrous ban on independent contracting it enacted last year that has crippled freelance journalism and driven Uber and Lyft to the brink of abandoning the Golden State.

AB 2257—the “fix it” bill just passed to address the many practical problems created by AB 5—restores some of the freedom to freelance that has long been enjoyed by journalists, musicians, interpreters, and many other professionals. But as Jim Manley tells us, the fundamental problems remain: the new bill doubles down on the political horse-trading that made AB 5 such a mess to begin with.

share thoughts on Social Media:

Copyright © 2020 Pacific Legal Foundation, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website or on Facebook.

Our mailing address is:

Pacific Legal Foundation

930 G Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

Add us to your address book

If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter you can unsubscribe from this list.