San Francisco mayor fights crime, homelessness amid turnaround hopes
SAN FRANCISCO — Mayor Daniel Lurie was walking along the corridor to his private office when he paused and pointed to a ...
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Michael Boudin, Independent Judge From a Family on the Left, Dies at 85
His death, in a memory care facility, resulted from complications of dementia and Parkinson’s disease, said his nephew Chesa Boudin, the former district attorney of San Francisco. Judge Boudin ...
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Prosecutor Brooke Jenkins Reshaping Incarceration Trends in San Francisco
New data shows a shift in incarceration outcomes in San Francisco three years after the 2022 election of District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, ...
Group trying to recall Contra Costa County DA faces financial challenges
It appears that electoral "buyer's remorse" is continuing as Contra Costa's Diana Becton has become the next Bay Area ...
Michael Boudin, federal judge who forged his own path, dies at 85
Michael Boudin, a jurist who came of age amid the ferment of left-wing activism as the son of a towering civil liberties ...
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Right-Wing Forces Target Contra Costa’s Progressive Prosecutor in Latest Recall Attempt
Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton, the only remaining progressive DA in the Bay Area, is now facing a recall ...
Michael Boudin, ‘an appellate judge’s judge’ who wrote key DOMA ruling, dies at 85
He was extraordinarily brilliant and history will count him as one of the most significant judges of his era,” said Judge Sandra L. Lynch of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.
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Group trying to recall Contra Costa County DA faces financial challenges
The first to go in 2022 was Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, and then, in 2024, Pamela Price in Alameda County. Now, the Becton recall proponents posted a video of her being served with the recall ...