President Trump is venturing onto increasingly shaky legal ground as officials reject new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, sidestepping a Supreme Court ruling reinstating DACA, legal experts and lawmakers say. The court ruled last month that the Trump administration hadn’t followed federal procedural law or justified terminating DACA in 2017, calling … Read more
A confidential settlement that paid $117,200 to a former state Senate staffer who accused a powerful lawmaker of workplace abuses was never voted on by the legislative committee that approves such payments, interviews reveal. The payment was made two months after the Senate had adjourned its 1998 session. And it was handled so quietly that … Read more
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). on Capitol Hill on Jan. 31. (Julio Cortez / Associated Press) Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) apologized on Thursday for his impassioned comments about two Supreme Court justices, saying he “should not have used the words.” Schumer derided Trump-appointed Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. … Read more
A former House page says he had sex with then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) after receiving explicit e-mails in which the congressman described assessing the sexual orientation and physical attributes of underage pages but waiting until later to make direct advances. The former page, who agreed to discuss his relationship with Foley with the Los Angeles … Read more
Tim Ecker collects signatures from grocery store patrons in Silver Lake on Tuesday. (Christina House / For The Times) When Tim Ecker decided to leave his construction job and work full time as a signature gatherer six years ago, the $1 or $2 a signature he was paid by ballot measure campaigns meant he could make a … Read more
On two separate occasions in the last three years, Times reporters have examined and found no truth to allegations that Vice President Dan Quayle bought drugs as a law student and later as a senator. The allegations–similar to charges contained in Doonesbury comic strips that are scheduled to run for two weeks, starting Monday–were originally … Read more
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Menlo Park) speaks during a congressional subcommittee hearing in 2020. She voted against a federal data privacy bill, saying it would override a California law. (Greg Nash / Associated Press) A key congressional committee is pushing a federal bill to bolster protections for consumers’ online data privacy, but California lawmakers have launched … Read more
Trucks wait in long lines to enter the Port of Los Angeles. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times) The Port of Los Angeles will begin operating around the clock as the White House pushes to clear supply chain bottlenecks threatening the holiday shopping season and slowing the country’s economic recovery from the global pandemic, senior Biden administration … Read more
No country in the world today is as ripe for democratic regime change as Iran. Societal discontent with the conservative clerics who rule the country has been building for years and now pervades the society. This broad disaffection has produced splits within the ruling regime. Periodic outbursts of public discontent, like the student protests last … Read more
Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) When former presidents and other dignitaries traveled to California to wax nostalgic on the speaking circuit, they may have been demanding, but none insisted on being flown from San Francisco by private jet to a venue just 70 miles down the freeway. … Read more
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