Jessica Levinson
Jessica Levinson is an Associate Clinical Professor at Loyola Law School. She focuses on the intersection of law and government.
Currently political bloggers do not have to disclose whether they are paid by a political campaign. A new proposal would change all of that.
L.A. County Board of Supervisors have little need to persuade voters to vote for them, they have no challengers. Yet three of them are amassing large campaign war chests.
The Fish and Game Commission President's mountain lion hunting trip got him tripped up in California's Political Reform Act.
The city currently has a $222 million budget deficit. That number is only expected to rise in the next few years. Something will have to give.
When Dianne Feinstein's campaign fund was wiped out illegally by her treasurer, she personally supplemented the millions lost. Other candidates might not have those resources.
Term limits have certainly not caused all that ails California, but they surely have done little to help.
Women now equal at least half of the population in most institutions of higher learning. We should ask why women have not come close to comprising half of the members of most elected government bodies.
In an era in which it is so easy to spend large sums to support candidates, and so difficult for charities to get the funding that they need, we must live with the less-than-ideal decision that behested contributions must be allowed.
With so little good news, but so much of it feeling predictable, some members of the electorate may feel less than motivated to go to the polls.
The integrity of the political and electoral processes we must have meaningful disclosure, but it should not come at the cost of bona fide security risks.
In the 1920s, when the size of the city council increased from 9 to 15 members, L.A.'s population was 576,000, less than the size of two of today's 15 city council districts.
The Fair Political Practices Commission, the state's political watchdog, is now investigating incidents involving former Bell officials.