edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
Environmentalists will hold a fundraiser next month for the state Attorney General campaign of Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, right in one of his chief rivals’ backyards.
The Sunday, Dec. 9 event – for which tickets cost $100 to $500 each – will be held [...]
California Attorney General Jerry Brown ruled Thursday that the California Citizens Compensation Commission can cut the salaries of state lawmakers, setting in motion an 18% pay cut for members of the Assembly and Senate. The salary reduction will take effect Dec. 7, and reduce legislators' pay from $116,208 a' [...]
Some days the good news just keeps comin’. Attorney General (soon to be governor?) Jerry Brown says the state Constitution permits the California Citizens Compensation Commission to reduce legislators and other elected officials’ salaries in the middle of their terms.
All together now: Hallelujah!
Legislative leaders resisted the Commission’s contention that [...]
In response to formal requests from legal counsel from the OC Board of Supervisors, the Attorney General's office has responded by advising that the blatant violations of the law be prosecuted by the local DA, who stood silent as Sheriff Carona became such a cancer that federal [...]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Sen. Dianne Feinstein told Attorney General Eric Holder this morning that she fully supports his decision to bring the masterminds of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to New York City for federal trials.
“I happen to believe that our federal judges are our [...]
Strongman Attorney General Eric Holder has announced formation of a new "Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force;" the new task force was created via Executive Order by the stroke of Barack H. Obama's magic signing pen:
"Mortgages, securities and corporate fraud schemes have eroded the public's confidence in the nation's financial" [...]
With the Obama Administration criticized for not going after Wall Street malfeasance, Attorney General Eric Holder and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today announced the creation of a joint task force to combat financial crimes.
** QUICK HITS. President Barack Obama’s trip to Asia continues. … At 8 PM Pacific, Obama [...]
Just in time to mess with Attorney General Jerry Brown's world some more, there's a new undercover ACORN video was released Monday night on Fox News' Sean Hannity hootenanny.
But unlike the...
So after taking a lot of heat from the GOP -- as reported in Monday's Chronicle -- for not appointing an independent investigation into his office's secret recording scandal, Attorney General...If Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack H. Obama argue that an American federal district court has jurisdiction over Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- all of whose alleged crimes were committed outside the United States -- simply because he plotted to kill Americans... then would they also argue that the [...]
In the first hour of his show today, Michael Medved was objecting to the staggeringly stupid decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, each accused of planning the September 11th attacks, [...]
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced this morning that five alleged terrorists believed to have taken part in planning the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks will be brought from the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to New York City, where they’ll be tried in federal court.
From House Minority Leader [...]
Television producer (“Alias,” “Lost”) and movie director (“Cloverfield,” “Star Trek”) J.J. Abrams of Pacific Palisades gave $25,000 Tuesday to state Attorney General Jerry Brown’s gubernatorial exploratory committee. His wife, actress Katie McGrath, gave another $25,000.
A day earlier, producer Kathleen Kennedy – who with director [...]
The California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility filed language for two ballot initiatives with the Attorney General’s Office this week that would cap new public employees’ retirement benefits, raise the eligible retirement age and eliminate the use of vacation pay and other perks to spike retirement pay.
The initiatives are identical [...]
Most of the coverage of Tuesday’s elections in Virginia has focused on the Republican sweep of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General offices. The story has centered on the turnaround of statewide candidates from 2008 when Democrats Barack Obama and Mark Warner were victorious in Virginia to less than [...]
State Attorney General Jerry Brown said today that "I don't see the rush" to formally declare himself a Democratic candidate for governor in 2010 -- and hinted he may not do so for months.
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Scott Gerber, the communications director for Attorney General Jerry Brown who admitted recording phone conversations with reporters without their permission --- including Chronicle senior...
Scott Gerber -- the spokesman for Attorney General Jerry Brown who admitted secretly taping a phone conversation with Carla Marinucci and other reporters -- has been put on "administrative...San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, he of the “whether you like it or not” fame, announced in an e-mail to reporters just moments ago that he is dropping out of the race for governor.
Newsom’s departure leaves just one Democrat in the running for governor next year — Attorney General [...]
The Los Angeles Times reports 
