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Obama Administration Weighs In On California Same-Sex Marriage Battle

The Obama administration today put its weight behind opponents of California's ban on same-sex marriage. The office of Attorney General Eric Holder filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, which could be weighing whether the Golden State's Proposition 8 is constitutional. In a statement ... More >>

Kamala Harris Tells U.S. Supreme Court Proposition 8 Must Be Overturned

In the state of California, same-sex marriage is illegal. You, the voter, made the law against gay unions happen. (Good move, people). So, of course, as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the constitutionality of the matter, the state Attorney General's office is defending your will. Right? Oh hell no ... More >>

Daniel Larson's an Innocent Man, Says Federal Judge: So Why is He Still in Prison?

A man who has been behind bars since 1998 was ruled innocent by a federal judge two years ago. But that hasn't translated to freedom. Today Bryan Banks, the football player falsely imprisoned for rape, along with family and other supporters of Daniel Larson, called on California Attorney General Ka ... More >>

University of California Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold Affirmative Action

Just call us the Bleeding Heart State: Yesterday, leading up to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Texas that will determine once and for all the constitutionality of considering race in university admissions, California Attorney General Kamala Harris joined the nation's most prestigious public unive ... More >>

Black Radio Went From Hero to Zero Under New Arbitron Ratings

A new Arbitron ratings system that put Spanish-language and African American radio stations in the dumps will be changed according to settlement with the state of California and the cities of L.A. and San Francisco. The likes of California Attorney General Kamala Harris and L.A. City Attorney Carme ... More >>

Sex Offenders No Longer Welcome at eHarmony, Match.com

Has your dating site served you up a heaping plate of loser or, worse, a straight-up perv? California Attorney General Kamala Harris is coming to the rescue. Today she announced a deal with three big dating websites, eHarmony, Match.com and Spark Networks (home of JDate and ChristianMingle) that wi ... More >>

Kamala Harris' $12 Billion Deal With Big Banks: Cop-out or Solid Settlement for California Homeowners?

So did she cave in to the Big Banks, or secure a good deal for the people of California? After holding out for a year, Attorney General Kamala Harris today announced that the Golden State is singing on to the nationwide settlement with the banks over their bungling of its loans to people who couldn ... More >>

Same Sex Marriage Ban Can be Defended by Religious Nuts, State Supreme Court Rules

Cobra​Updated at the bottom with California Attorney General Kamala Harris rooting for LGBT rights. First posted at 11:02 a.m. The battle over the legality of Prop. 8, the state voter initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage, continued on its epic way today as the California Supreme Court r ... More >>

Kamala Harris, California's Top Cop, Pressured by Occupy Movement to Fry Big Banks Over Bad Home Loans

Kamala.​An activist platform that supports Occupy Wall Street is telling California Attorney General Kamala Harris to hold fast against pressure to make nice with major banks that allegedly committed fraud in their drive to sell home loans to folks who couldn't afford them. That, of course, l ... More >>

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Sues Plastic Water Bottle Companies

shrf14​A new lawsuit accuses water bottle companies of lying to consumers in California when labeling their plastic products as "100 percent biodegradable and recyclable." State Attorney General Kamala D. Harris names three companies in the "greenwashing" suit, filed in Orange County Superior ... More >>

Cocaine Worth $5 Million Seized by California Agents in Bellflower, Bell Gardens, Kamala Harris Says

Das alotta coca my frengs.​Huge cocaine bust announced today: 51 kilos were seized by state agents in Bellflower and Bell Gardens. And the dope was linked, according to the office of state Attorney General Kamala Harris, to Mexico's Gaudalajara Cartel. Total worth? About $5 million, according ... More >>

$102 Million Bribery Scandal Rocks San Bernardino: Former County Supervisor Paul Biane Said to be a Fugitive

​Updated after the jump with reaction from the San Bernardino League of Women Voters president, who says locals are sick of the years of corruption allegations there. What is this, New Jersey? Four people, including three San Bernardino County public officials, have been indicted in a $102 m ... More >>

Stuffy Federal Appeals Judges Won't Allow California Gay Marriages to Resume During Prop. 8 Hearing Downtime

​On the very day of Hollywood AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor's death, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the gays of the Golden State: Thou shalt not wed thine one true love during this frustrating court-system standstill in the overturning of the absurdly unconstitut ... More >>

California Attorney General Kamala Harris Joins Obama as Friend of the Gays, Asks Court to Lift Ban on Same-Sex Marriage

​Updated after the jump with high fives from across the gay-rights community. After disappointing news came two weeks ago that the fight against Prop. 8 is being delayed until at least September, brand-new California Attorney General Kamala Harris took matters into her own hands today, airing ... More >>

Porn: California Attorney General Kamala Harris Asked to Investigate Adult Industry Medical Clinic

Porn.​The war over condoms in porn continued this week. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation sent a letter to California Attorney General Kamala Harris asking her to look into the transfer off the adult industry's main health-care and testing clinic from nonprofit to for-profit status. The clinic, ... More >>

The Race For District Attorney: Mario Trujillo Close To A Decision

Mario Trujillo is considering a run for D.A.​There are at least two challenges for the career prosecutors considering whether to run for D.A. 1) How to deal with Carmen Trutanich, who has told supporters that he will run if Steve Cooley retires, and who would be the frontrunner. And 2) How to deal ... More >>

Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010: No. 2, Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris is legally hot.​Kamala, please don't prosecute us, but we think you're kind of hot. (So, apparently, did Willie Brown). California's new Attorney General -- and remember, we called it -- is a babe, and she's single, and she's smarter than you. And ...

Kamala Harris Declares Victory, Announces Transition Team

Kamala Harris​Kamala Harris declared victory this morning in the razor-close race for attorney general. With almost all the ballots counted, Harris is leading L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley by 73,102 votes.Proving right off the bat that she will be a different kind of A.G., Harris announced a ... More >>

How Steve Cooley Blew It: The Definitive Post-Mortem

Photo by Kevin ScanlonSteve Cooley: What went wrong​Note: We first ran this port-mortem back on Nov. 3. Now that Cooley's campaign is officially dead, it seems appropriate to recycle it, with a reaction below from Cooley consultant Kevin Spillane. Whatever the outcome of the attorney general's rac ... More >>

Steve Cooley Concedes Attorney General's Race to Kamala Harris

Steve Cooley​Steve Cooley has conceded the attorney general's race to Kamala Harris. In a conference call, Cooley's campaign consultant, Kevin Spillane, announced that Cooley had called Harris to congratulate her.We called the race for Harris yesterday, after noting that Cooley would need to win t ... More >>

Kamala Harris Victory in Attorney General Race Thrills California Gay Rights Groups

California Attorney General-elect Kamala Harris​Two prominent gay rights groups in California didn't waste any time celebrating Kamala Harris's victory over Steve Cooley in the state attorney general race, which L.A. Weekly called yesterday. "Today's decision in the attorney general race mea ... More >>

Kamala Harris Defeats Steve Cooley For California Attorney General

Fox 11 NewsSteve Cooley went with his gut and declared victory on Election Night. His gut let him down.​We've been saying for a while that the math didn't look good for Steve Cooley. But now we can go ahead and make it official.Steve Cooley has lost. Kamala Harris will be the next attorney general ... More >>

Did Marijuana Sink Steve Cooley?

An anti-Cooley poster​They're still counting ballots down in Norwalk, but Americans for Safe Access is ready to declare a winner in the attorney general's race: Kamala Harris.ASA supports medical marijuana, and attacked Steve Cooley during the campaign for trying to shut down dispensaries. Now, th ... More >>

Steve Cooley, Kamala Harris Campaigns Trade Jabs As Last California Attorney General Votes Counted: Commenter Says There's No Voter Fraud

Kamala Harris has slight edge in tight race for Attorney General.​State Attorney General hopefuls Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris are still fighting tooth-and-nail over every vote for the still-up-in-the-air Nov. 2 election, with a focus this weekend on the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder's offi ... More >>

Steve Cooley's Goons Square Off With Kamala Harris' Goons In Norwalk

Steve Cooley​Steve Cooley's campaign is engaged in an escalating war of words with elections officials in L.A., where 150,000 provisional ballots could tip the balance in the razor-close race for attorney general.Cooley's attorney has fired off three letters to the L.A. County Registar-Recorder in ... More >>

Kamala Harris To Steve Cooley: Call Off The Goons (Updated)

Getting testy in Norwalk​Updated below with response from the Cooley campaign at 7:23 p.m.Kamala Harris' chief strategist is accusing Steve Cooley's campaign of intimidating election workers in Norwalk in an effort to disqualify provisional ballots.Harris holds a narrow 14,000 vote lead in the rac ... More >>

Kamala Harris Retakes Razor-Thin Lead Over Steve Cooley

​It was exactly a week ago that D.A. Steve Cooley took the lead from Kamala Harris in the still too-close-to-call race for attorney general. Tonight, she has taken it back, and now leads her Republican rival by a mere 5,000 votes, or about six one-hundredths of a percent. Harris was down by 15,000 ... More >>

Steve Cooley Lawyers Up, Prepares For Battle In Attorney General's Race

Fox 11 NewsSteve Cooley declared victory on Tuesday night​L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley has lawyered up in preparation for a drawn-out fight with Kamala Harris in the still too-close-to-call race for attorney general.In a memo to supporters on Thursday night, Cooley's consultant Kevin Spilla ... More >>

Why The Math Looks Bad For Steve Cooley

Photo of Harris by Ted SoquiSqueaker: Harris is beating Cooley by 12,000 votes​It will be weeks before the winner is known in the super-close race for attorney general. But thanks to figures provided by the Secretary of State's office, we can make a back-of-the-envelope guess as to how the remaini ... More >>

If Kamala Harris Keeps Lead ...

Victory could put her reforms at odds with new governor

Did L.A. D.A. Steve Cooley's Attack Ads Against Kamala Harris Backfire?

Did Steve Cooley let Kamala Harris have this one?​In his look at why L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley probably lost the race for Attorney General, LA Weekly staff writer Gene Maddaus notes that the lawman kicked back like a longtime Washington incumbent, letting San Fran D.A. Kamala Harris ... More >>

Steve Cooley Kamala Harris Vote Results: Cooley Declares Victory, But Harris Takes The Lead

Photo of Harris by Ted SoquiSteve Cooley and Kamala Harris​Kamala Harris, who was trailing all night in the attorney general's race, has taken a slim lead over L.A. County D.A. Steve Cooley. Cooley declared victory hours ago and went home to Rancho Palos Verdes, where he is either sleeping peacefu ... More >>

L.A. County Vote 2010: Results for Propositions 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 And California Governor, Attorney General, Etc.

Here's how Los Angeles County voters weighed in on November 2010 Election Day as of about 1:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, with 67% of precincts counted: Proposition 19 Legalize Marijuana: YES 582,228 45.39% NO 700,389 54.61% Proposition 20 End Gerrymandering: YES 693,803 57.25% NO 518,10 ... More >>

Steve Cooley Not Done Yet: Over 1 Million Ballots Uncounted In Attorney General's Race

Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris are still too close to call​With all precinct votes counted, San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris is hanging on to a lead of 15,000 votes in the race for attorney general. That's a margin of two-tenths of a percent over L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley.But there are 4 ... More >>

Steve Cooley Trails In L.A., Clings To 1-Point Lead Statewide Over Kamala Harris

Steve Cooley​Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris are in a dead heat in the race for attorney general, according to the latest Field Poll. Cooley leads Harris 39-38, with 23% undecided the week before Election Day.Cooley is now trailing in L.A. County, 43-37. That's a big change from September, when he ... More >>

POT STICKLERS

Cooley Isn't So Tough on Corruption

And Harris isn't so liberal

With Independent Ad, Kamala Harris Looks To Link Steve Cooley To Karl Rove

Steve Cooley: Dime con quien andas...​Among candidates for state office, Kamala Harris is the only Democrat who's trailing in the polls. That means plenty of Democrats plan to split their ballots with a vote for moderate Republican Steve Cooley.So in the closing week of the campaign, the Harris ca ... More >>

Hollywood Backs Harris as Cooley Pulls Away

Why ugly and grumpy Steve is beating smart and beautiful Kamala

D.A. Steve Cooley Uses Bell Scandal Figure Robert Rizzo In First TV Ad Of Attorney General Campaign

Political fodder: Robert Rizzo behind bars​When former Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo was frog-marched off to jail last month, some -- including Rizzo's lawyer -- questioned the timing. The D.A.'s office had been investigating Bell for more than a year, but waited until six weeks before the Novemb ... More >>

A.G. Race: Kamala Harris Ups Her Attacks On D.A. Steve Cooley's Environmental Record

Steve Cooley​Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for attorney general, launched an ad last week attacking her opponent, Steve Cooley, for closing down the L.A. District Attorney's environmental crimes unit.Today, she upped the volume on those attacks, trotting out a former prosecutor in the D. ... More >>

Steve Cooley Paints California Attorney General Race Opponent Kamala Harris As Soft On Crime In UC David Debate

AP / Rich Pedroncelli​Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris duked it out during their first and only debate in the race for California Attorney General. Republican L.A. District Attorney Cooley painted Harris as soft on crime and somewhat of a bleeding heart liberal who's opposed to the death penalty ... More >>

To Stage War Plays, or Not to Stage War Plays

Cooley's Blind Eye

District attorney accepted laundered campaign money while prosecuting Democratic contributors for same offense

Harris Campaign Calls On Cooley To Return Gladwin Gill Contributions

Steve Cooley​In response to a report in today's L.A. Weekly, advisers to Democratic A.G. nominee Kamala Harris are calling on her opponent, D.A. Steve Cooley, to return some $12,000 in campaign contributions from 2003 and 2004.The contributions are tied to Gladwin Gill, the proprietor of a Glendal ... More >>

Attorney General Candidate Steve Cooley Would 'Defend' Proposition 8

L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley​Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, who's the Republican candidate for California Attorney General, would defend Proposition 8 in court if given the opportunity, says his campaign spokesman Kevin Spillane. "The role of the attorney g ... More >>

Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris Face Off in Attorney General Race

L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley​The primaries are over, and now Los Angeles Country District Attorney Steve Cooley will face San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris in the California Attorney General race. Cooley, a moderate Republican from Southern California, is expected ... More >>

In A.G.'s race, two big names weigh in late

​Candidates for statewide office turned in their semi-annual fundraising numbers Monday. But perhaps the two biggest names in the attorney general's race didn't have to file because they weren't running at all last year.Steve Cooley, the Republican district attorney of L.A. County, jumped into the ... More >>

LAPD Chief Bill Bratton Endorses Delgadillo Rival

After following Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton in the news these past few weeks, we get the distinct impression that he wants to leave this town jabbing and swinging ... especially when it comes to his political enemies and critics.LAPD Chief Bill Bratton stars in a Mark Ridley-Tho ... More >>

New Count for Three-Strikes Law

D.A. Steve Cooley wants voters to revamp the inhumane measure