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Those kinds of comments suggested an ultimate decision short of a “bright line” all-or-nothing ruling, such as “you must have a warrant to search a cell phone at any time for any reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices, who are sometimes portrayed as “less than with it” when it comes to technology (will there ever be cameras in the courtroom?) seemed to go out of their way to show their hipness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Justice John Roberts wondered if some data on cellphones might not be legally protected, given how public it already is. “What about something (from) Facebook or Twitter? The privacy interest in a Facebook account is at least diminished,” he said. 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Sure, but how?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>NPR’s Nina Totenberg:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/04/29/308068253/supreme-court-considers-where-lines-drawn-in-cell-phone-searches?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=share&utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Court struggles to adapt modern technology to traditional legal rules\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>New York Times:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/us/justices-seem-torn-on-cellphone-warrants.html?ref=us&_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justices Appear Divided on Cellphone Warrants\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Truthdig: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/two_felons_could_force_the_supreme_court_to_protect_privacy_in_the_digital_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two felons could force the Supreme Court to protect privacy in the digital age\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A ruling on the issue is expected by the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Monday, April 28):\u003c/strong> Early one morning in 2009, college student David Riley was pulled over by San Diego police. Riley’s plates had expired tags and he was driving with a suspended license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the course of searching his car, the police found two concealed and loaded handguns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley was placed under arrest and the officer took a Samsung smartphone from his pocket. That phone — and everything stored on it — was later searched by the police without a warrant. The contents of the phone were used to connect Riley to gang activity, leading to several charges, including attempted murder. He was sentenced to 15 years to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.law.stanford.edu/profile/jeffrey-l-fisher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford Law Professor Jeff Fisher\u003c/a>, who is Riley’s attorney, explains that police “found photographs and videos of Mr. Riley near a red car — a car that had been involved in an altercation where shots were fired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His conviction and the warrantless phone search were later upheld by the California Supreme Court, which had previously ruled that such searches are constitutional. Now Riley is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that such searches violate the Fourth Amendment’s ban on “unreasonable searches and seizures.” The case will be heard Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/146960041&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A cellphone is, in essence, a portal into the most private and sensitive information in our lives,” Fisher says. “Our work, our personal life, our banking, our medical records — all the way down the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"http://www.volokh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Riley-cert-petition-final-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brief to the Supreme Court\u003c/a>, the government contends the Fourth Amendment \u003cem>allows\u003c/em> the search of objects found on someone arrested, including a cellphone. That information, they argue, “is not different in kind from wallets, address books, personal papers and other items that have long been subject to examination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘A cellphone is, in essence, a portal into the most private and sensitive information in our lives.’\u003ccite>— Professor Jeff Fisher\u003cbr>\nStanford Law School\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement groups agree. Richard Littlehale represents the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ascia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies\u003c/a>, part of a consortium of groups asking the court to uphold these searches. Littlehale says that in the future more and more evidence is going to be found in digital formats. Unless police are allowed to immediately search a smartphone, he says, evidence could be lost forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get out there more and explain why we need these records and make our case to the courts and make our case to the public that this evidence is important in our quest to protect them,” Littlehale says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates say the fear of losing potential evidence is overblown, arguing that there are ways to preserve the information on cellphones until the police have a search warrant. They argue that the amount and sensitivity of information stored on cellphones require a higher level of privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/riley-v-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riley v. 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Riley’s plates had expired tags and he was driving with a suspended license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the course of searching his car, the police found two concealed and loaded handguns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley was placed under arrest and the officer took a Samsung smartphone from his pocket. That phone — and everything stored on it — was later searched by the police without a warrant. The contents of the phone were used to connect Riley to gang activity, leading to several charges, including attempted murder. He was sentenced to 15 years to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.law.stanford.edu/profile/jeffrey-l-fisher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford Law Professor Jeff Fisher\u003c/a>, who is Riley’s attorney, explains that police “found photographs and videos of Mr. Riley near a red car — a car that had been involved in an altercation where shots were fired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His conviction and the warrantless phone search were later upheld by the California Supreme Court, which had previously ruled that such searches are constitutional. Now Riley is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that such searches violate the Fourth Amendment’s ban on “unreasonable searches and seizures.” The case will be heard Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/146960041&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A cellphone is, in essence, a portal into the most private and sensitive information in our lives,” Fisher says. “Our work, our personal life, our banking, our medical records — all the way down the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"http://www.volokh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Riley-cert-petition-final-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brief to the Supreme Court\u003c/a>, the government contends the Fourth Amendment \u003cem>allows\u003c/em> the search of objects found on someone arrested, including a cellphone. That information, they argue, “is not different in kind from wallets, address books, personal papers and other items that have long been subject to examination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘A cellphone is, in essence, a portal into the most private and sensitive information in our lives.’\u003ccite>— Professor Jeff Fisher\u003cbr>\nStanford Law School\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement groups agree. Richard Littlehale represents the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ascia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies\u003c/a>, part of a consortium of groups asking the court to uphold these searches. Littlehale says that in the future more and more evidence is going to be found in digital formats. 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He highlighted the plan in his January State of the State address and further elevated the issue \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404250850/a\">by calling the Legislature into special session\u003c/a> earlier this month\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown argues that by trying to capture funds \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/11/125893/gov-brown-rainy-day-fund\">from periodic spikes in capital gains tax revenue\u003c/a>, the plan could smooth out the deep deficits that have hit California when the economy weakens. Before the Assembly Budget Committee on Monday, he said that stability is worth the cost of forgoing several billions of dollars’ worth of spending on state programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is some curb, because if you don’t curb you’ll go back into this constant recurrence of debt,” Brown said. “Boom and bust, red and black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/4.14.14_State_Reserve_Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Brown proposal \u003c/a>would replace California’s current rainy day fund, which has been virtually ignored by governors and lawmakers since 2007. And it would bump a competing proposal, approved by the Legislature in 2010, off the November ballot. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There is some curb, because if you don’t curb you’ll go back into this constant recurrence of debt. Boom and bust, red and black.’\u003ccite>— Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Under the governor’s plan, whenever capital gains taxes make up more than 6.5 percent of the state’s general fund revenue, the excess would be steered into a reserve account. That account would max out at 10 percent of general fund tax proceeds. The proposal would allow the state to use some of that account to pay down debts and other liabilities, and it would set up a new reserve account to support school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Democrats and Republicans on the Assembly budget panel voiced support for a new rainy day fund. (The panel asked Brown just one question during his hourlong appearance.) Republican enthusiasm for Brown’s cautious fiscal approach underscored the difficulty GOP opponents face in this year’s election. In fact, Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, an Orange County Republican, may have inadvertently shown just how little faith the party has in challengers Tim Donnelly and Neel Kashkari when she said that she trusted Brown’s approach to governing, but worried “he will only be here for another term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, GOP lawmakers do want to make some changes to how the fund’s money could be tapped in future years. Brown’s plan would only require a simple majority vote to spend reserve money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been some conversation about requiring a two-thirds vote,” said committee vice chair Jeff Gorell, a Republican from Ventura County. “There’s some logic to that,” he said, pointing out that “urgency” legislation currently requires a supermajority. 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In contrast to the 75-year-old Brown and the conservative Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, Kashkari is the guy who uses emoji icons in his tweets and pauses speeches to post Instagram pictures. He threw a big party Saturday night, and made sure to tell his campaign volunteers that the band would be playing Michael Jackson music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a convention full of conservative activists, many people didn’t want to rebuild or rebrand the Republican Party. It was Donnelly, not Kashkari, who won the biggest applause of the weekend. The Tea Party favorite heard loud cheers when he called Brown a “Marxist-progressive parading as a Democrat, “ railed against gun control and decried \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/29/124733/new-transgender-students-bill-tested-in-manteca-school\">a law signed last year allowing transgender students to use the facilities of their choice.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly dismissed Kashkari as just the latest in a long line of watered-down Republican candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right, let’s look at the pathway that got us where we are as a party: to less than a third of the electorate,” he told reporters. “We put up moderate billionaires who are not effective campaigners and don’t connect with people’s hearts and minds. They didn’t take the tough stands. The controversial stands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari has raised hundreds of thousands more dollars than Donnelly and has the backing of most of the party’s establishment. 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It trains them, too. “Everything from how to put together a political plan to a fundraising plan. Your overall communications strategy. How to file for office,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP needs to gain two Assembly seats and one Senate seat to break the Democrats’ two-thirds hold. (Though Democrats have already temporarily lost their supermajority in the Senate, with Sens. Ron Calderon and Rod Wright on paid leave to deal with legal problems.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kashkari vs. Donnelly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican leaders wanted to keep the focus on their modest goals this weekend. That’s understandable, given the substantial hurdles the party is still facing on the state level. Republicans may not even field a candidate in several statewide races this fall. And with Gov. 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The Tea Party favorite heard loud cheers when he called Brown a “Marxist-progressive parading as a Democrat, “ railed against gun control and decried \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/29/124733/new-transgender-students-bill-tested-in-manteca-school\">a law signed last year allowing transgender students to use the facilities of their choice.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly dismissed Kashkari as just the latest in a long line of watered-down Republican candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right, let’s look at the pathway that got us where we are as a party: to less than a third of the electorate,” he told reporters. “We put up moderate billionaires who are not effective campaigners and don’t connect with people’s hearts and minds. They didn’t take the tough stands. The controversial stands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari has raised hundreds of thousands more dollars than Donnelly and has the backing of most of the party’s establishment. 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(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/5760.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Kennard, an associate justice on the California Supreme Court\u003c/a> who is the tribunal’s longest-serving member, has announced she’ll step down in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I’ve been wedded to my work, working seven days a week. … I’d like to finally make time for my long-neglected friends.’\u003ccite>Joyce Kennard,\u003cbr>\nRetiring California Supreme Court Justice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kennard, 72, informed Gov. Jerry Brown of her decision on Tuesday. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25117048/california-supreme-court-justice-joyce-kennard-retiring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told legal affairs reporter Howard Mintz of the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>: “It is with a heavy heart I’m saying goodbye. … April 5 will be 25 years. That’s a quarter of a century. That’s a long, long time.” She sounded the same theme \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Joyce-Kennard-to-retire-from-California-Supreme-5225997.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bob Egelko\u003c/a>: “I think it’s time to start a new chapter. I’ve been wedded to my work, working seven days a week. … I’d like to finally make time for my long-neglected friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://governors.library.ca.gov/35-deukmejian.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican Gov. George Deukmejian\u003c/a> appointed her to the court in 1989. Here’s how the Los Angeles Times’ legal affairs reporter, Maura Dolan, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-joyce-kennard-retires-20140211,0,5498215.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">briefly sizes up\u003c/a> Kennard’s life and career:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… She has been regarded as a highly independent judge, often siding with the underdog, and is one of the court’s most vocal members during oral arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennard was born in Indonesia to parents who were of Dutch, Indonesian, Chinese and German descent and suffered an impoverished childhood. She was confined to an internment camp on the Indonesian island of Java during the Japanese occupation of the region. A tumor required doctors to amputate her right leg above the knee when she was in her teens, and she walks with a prosthesis and a cane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 20, she moved to the U.S. and landed work as a secretary. With a $5,000 bequest from her mother and scholarships, she started her formal education at Pasadena City College and earned her law degree and a master’s degree in public administration from USC. She was hired as a deputy attorney general for the state before being appointed as a jurist, moving from Los Angeles County’s Municipal Court to Superior Court to a court of appeal and finally to the California Supreme Court. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… Deukmejian appointed Kennard to the court after he helped spearhead a campaign to oust \u003ca href=\"http://cschs.org/02_history/images_c/02_c_bird.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chief Justice Rose Bird\u003c/a> and two other liberal justices. But Kennard’s decision-making did not reflect Deukmejian’s conservative views. She enjoyed a behind-the-scenes friendship with the late Bird and voted so often with the liberal late \u003ca href=\"http://cschs.org/02_history/images_c/02_c_mosk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Stanley Mosk \u003c/a>that the pair were dubbed “the odd couple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She frequently ruled in favor of gay rights, joining the 4-3 majority that overturned California’s ban on same-sex marriage in 2008. She also showed a willingness to rule for defendants over prosecutors and workers over employers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Merc’s Howard Mintz added this context:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Former Chief Justice Ronald George, who spent many years on the court with Kennard, agreed with the assessment of legal scholars who’ve long described her as unpredictable and independent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She certainly did not have any specific agenda or particular dogma she adhered to,” George said. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… Kennard was famous for interjecting questions during oral arguments before the Supreme Court, often turning them into lengthy speeches before pointing her finger at a lawyer and demanding an answer. She was unpredictable in her rulings, and would come down on the more liberal side of social issues before the court. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… Among her other notable cases was a 2002 ruling in which she found against Nike, concluding that businesses could be held liable for public statements regarding labor practices as commercial business speech.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And the Chronicle’s Egelko says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a lone dissent from a 1993 ruling upholding surrogate-motherhood contracts in California, Kennard chided the all-male majority and said a pregnant woman “is more than a mere container or breeding animal; she is a conscious agent of creation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was later part of moderate-to-liberal majorities that struck down a state law requiring parental consent for minors’ abortions and California’s ban on same-sex marriage. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… She also wrote majority opinions upholding a state campaign finance disclosure law and allowing the victim of a rape by a police officer to sue the city.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Brown said, “”The state and its people have been well served by Justice Kennard, and her independence and intellectual fortitude have left a lasting mark on the court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, who in 2011 appointed \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/15450.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former UC Berkeley Law Professor Goodwin Liu\u003c/a>, will get to name his second justice to the court.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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A recent survey by the public affairs firm Grassroots Lab found that among California’s mayors and city council members, three out of four are men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group working to reverse that trend is Emerge California, a nonprofit that recruits, trains and helps Democratic women run for office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Emerge training event in San Francisco recently, Executive Director Kimberly Ellis expressed dismay that less than 30 percent of state legislators are women. She says increasing the numbers of elected women isn’t just about parity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really interested in changing the tenor and culture of politics. But more importantly, we’re interested in changing the policy outcomes and the legislation,” Ellis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes female politicians are reliable advocates for things like gun control, women’s health care or children’s issues. 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When a shadowy Arizona group made that $11 million political contribution to defeat Gov. Brown’s tax-hike ballot measure Prop. 30 and to help defeat the anti-labor Prop. 32, Ravel threw the FPPC’s investigative powers into overdrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went all the way to the state Supreme Court to find out who was the true source of the money. Days before the election the justices unanimously ordered the group \u003ca href=\"http://arl-national.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for Responsible Leadership\u003c/a> to reveal the source of its funds. (The group complied, but its disclosure only revealed two other organizations that had the money before it was funneled to California, leaving many questions unanswered.) Americans for Responsible Leadership and the Center to Protect Patients’ Rights, another group with links to conservative activists Charles and David Koch, will pay the $1 million fine. The FPPC is also trying to force the recipients of the illegal cash to turn it over to the state, as required by California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement is the largest for a case of campaign money laundering in California elections history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that piece of business wrapped up, Ravel heads for Washington, D.C., where she’ll serve as President Obama’s newest Democratic appointee to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fec.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Election Commission\u003c/a> (FEC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry she’s leaving,” said Kim Alexander, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calvoter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Voter Foundation\u003c/a>. “What she’s created shows real initiative.” Alexander called the nationwide SUN Center “fantastic and innovative,” adding, “I don’t know of any state or local disclosure agency executive who’s done anything like that before. I’m hoping she’ll be able to continue being involved in this at the FEC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to California, where the Fair Political Practices Commission is dominated by Democratic appointees (not to mention Democratic dominance of the Legislature and every statewide office including governor), Ravel might not need her running shoes. In fact, critics say the FEC has been standing in place for years, pretty much gridlocked by design, with three Democrats, three Republicans and four votes needed for any FEC action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel says she hopes that her confirmation, along with a new Republican nominee, by the unanimous consent of the U.S. Senate signals a new era of cooperation at the FEC. Others are less sanguine about that. 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