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Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, talks to reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, June 20, 2023. A judge has recommended that conservative attorney Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Ex-Trump lawyer Eastman should lose state law license for efforts to overturn election, judge says

By Stefanie Dazio and Christopher Weber - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Rich Hatfield shows a western bumble bee (Bombus occidentalis) landing on Canada goldenrod. The California Supreme Court on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, allowed the state to consider protecting threatened bumblebees under a conservation law listing aimed at fish. (Rich Hatfield/The Xerces Society via AP)

California court ruling that bumblebees are legally fish allowed to stand by state Supreme Court

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this file photo, President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the National Governors Association in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Washington. Mr. Biden is under fire from Republicans for hypocrisy over his pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court when, as a U.S. senator, he filibustered George W. Bush's nomination of Janice Rogers Brown, a Black woman, to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden accused of hypocrisy for filibuster against Black female jurist’s nomination

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this April 28, 2021, file photo, Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate is expected to narrowly confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson for the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She is widely expected to land on President Joe Biden's short list should a Supreme Court vacancy arise. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Biden eyes long list of Black female candidates to fill Supreme Court vacancy

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - This Nov. 29, 2021 photo from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, shows inmate Scott Peterson, who was convicted for the 2002 murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son. Peterson is expected to be resentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, after the state Supreme Court ruled that his jury was improperly screened for bias against the death penalty. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP, File)

Scott Peterson faces new life sentence in wife’s 2002 death

By Don Thompson - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2020, file photo, is the Earl Warren Building, headquarters of the Supreme Court of California, in San Francisco. The California Supreme Court on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, upheld the state's 2018 law barring 14 and 15-year-olds from being tried as adults and sent to adult prisons even for serious crimes like murder, arson and robbery, rape or kidnapping. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

State high court upholds ending adult trials for some youths

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 23, 2015, file photo, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye delivers her State of the Judiciary address at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. The California Supreme Court ruled Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, that inmates convicted of what the state defines as nonviolent sex crimes cannot be denied a chance at earlier release under a ballot measure approved by nearly two-thirds of voters four years ago. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California court: Sex offenders can qualify for early parole

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

California high court upholds serial killer’s death penalty

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California Supreme Court overturns woman’s murder conviction

Associated Press

This May 11, 2018 photo from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Scott Peterson. Northern California prosecutors said Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, they will again seek the death penalty for Peterson in the slaying of his pregnant wife and unborn son nearly 19 years ago, even as a county judge considers throwing out his underlying conviction because of a tainted juror. Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager acted after the California Supreme Court in August overturned Peterson's 2005 death sentence in a case that attracted worldwide attention. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP)

California prosecutors again seek death for Scott Peterson

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Scott Peterson murder convictions ordered re-examined

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Scott Peterson murder conviction ordered re-examined by California Supreme Court

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FILE - In this Jan. 2, 2019, file photo, people walk past the Earl Warren Building that houses the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. Los Angeles County must pay a full $8 million damages award to the family of a Black man whose death evoked the more resent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. While subduing Darren Burley in 2012, Los Angeles sheriff's deputies &quot;used their knees to pin him to the ground with as much body weight as possible,&quot; according to the court's unanimous ruling. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Court: LA County owes $8M to man killed like George Floyd

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

California Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin to retire

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event on health care prices in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

California Supreme Court rules state can’t force Trump to release tax returns

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times