Deputy Chief of the Wall Street Journal’s law bureau.
Deputy Chief of the Wall Street Journal’s law bureau.
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Ashby Jones
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FROM Ashby Jones
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Is California’s Death Penalty Unconstitutional? Last July a California judge ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in the case of Ernest D Jones. The reasoning behind the judge’s ruling? It’s taking California too long to kill inmates on Death Row. So long that the sentence amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
To the Point
Supreme Court Rules to Uphold Gun Rights in Cities and States On the last day of its current term, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment's right "to keep and bear arms" extends not just to federal jurisdictions, but to all states and municipalities. Ashby Jones is lead writer on the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog .
Which Way, L.A.?
Should We Make a Federal Case Out of Proposition 8? Two lawyers from opposite ends of the political spectrum joined forces today to file suit against Governor Schwarzenegger and other California officials. They claim that Proposition 8 , upheld yesterday by the State Supreme Court, violates both the Due Process Clause and the 14th Amendment of the federal constitution. Ashby Jones writes…
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Left, Right & Center
No end in sight More than 800,000 federal employees continue to go without pay in what could soon be the longest government shutdown yet.
KCRW Features
What charter school growth has to do with the LA teachers strike The Los Angeles’ teachers strike has lasted a full school week . Class sizes and school staffing remain key sticking points in the impasse between United Teachers Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School District.