Month: July 2020

For the second time in two weeks, the Supreme Court has made clear its views on how and when to sever unconstitutional provisions from a federal law.

As the coronavirus rages through California’s crowded state prisons, threatening those inside and straining community hospitals, pressure is building on Gov. Gavin Newsom to avert a wider public-health crisis by drastically cutting prison populations — including at San Quentin in Marin County, now home to one of the country’s biggest COVID-19 outbreaks.