Payments seven judges make toward their pensions would be cut nearly in half by a bill approved last week in a Senate committee, despite a warning from the chairwoman of a “slippery slope” undermining the governor’s pension reform.
After reviewing the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the legal challenge to Proposition 8, it is clear that those who would deny marriage equality to LGBT Californians have given increasing prominence to one argument in particular: Courts should not intervene to overturn Proposition 8 because to do so would interfere with routine