the texas legislature is not insane. it knows how to do redistricting maps with very well regarding voting rights and ask the court to look at it this way. if you did in 2011 and you know the outcome was discrimination is doing the same thing over and over again. and expecting and achieving the exact same results and that is what happened here your honor. thank you. >> thank you counsel. >> mr. chief justice of it may please the court this court does not have jurisdiction to hear this appeal but if it proceeds to the merits the district court properly applied the arlington heights framework to apply the intent of the 2013 legislature to reenact some of the same statehouse districts it was deliberately designed in 2011 to cancel out or minimize those voting restraints black-and-white latino voters in texas and it concluded the intent of the legislature was in fact to maintain and perpetuate those findings cannot be deemed clearly with the entire record that is .-ellipsis the jurisdictional question has been discussed that

under another governor and maybe another legislature, because the legislature is up for election in may in the primary and november in the general. host: what are your thoughts about school safety issues and arming security guards? in idaho, we have had security guards. we have had resource officers which are local police folks in our schools. we have had armed folks in the schools, usually as a resource officer if a child needs -- a student needs to talk to an official about some problem at home or in the neighborhood or being bullied or something like that, then they have an official and a law enforcement figure they can talk to. grow up with guns, and we have great respect for guns. a home wherek of there probably isn't a gun, and there may well be, that generally, you will find a great respect for the old adage, when i was very, very young, and the same with my eight brothers and sisters, there is never an unloaded gun. you always have to be very careful when you use it and how you use it. if we were to arm folks in the schools, the janitors and teachers, and they wanted to volu

what the legislature did was shuffle 360,000 people have bring 350,000 people. the district went from 47% republican and 36 democrats to exactly the opposite. how much more evidence of partisan intent could we need? >> you might want intent to create something like it competitive district. it went to a plus two democrat. >> plus two, you're referring to the single election. >> they evaluated the first effectiveness. including so is what the intent would suggest. the long-standing income that is seated who prevails three straight times. it appears that they got exactly what they intended. he took a republican district and made it into not the safest of districts but a pretty safe one. >> in that first election the incumbent republican had seven opponents in the republican primary. the total vote exceeded the votes of the incumbent. they did not run for office because i thought it was a waste of time. they considered it to be competitive. so they ran as we often do. >> the idea of it being advanced is extreme gerrymandering. 100% extreme. and that's an example of

it actually takes a three-fourths vote in the legislature to pass taxes. and llat's been a ry high bar you know, a lot of lawmakers say they've already do they can, and they're not willing to cast another "yes" vote for more t increases, especially as many of them go back home to some very tonservative parts of the state and tr defend that vote as primaries come up in a couple monthsan >> sreenivben felder, reporter if the "the oklahoman," chining us from oklahoma city, thanks so >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: turning now to puerto rico, and what's at stake there fo teachers i am joined via skype from san juan by danica coto of the associated press. .so, first of all, ythe closure? >> well, the department of education has said in the past three deck aerkdpuerto rico s seen school enrollment drop at 42%, and since may have last year, enrollment has dropped by 38,7 most of it is due to the economic crisis, but in addition, there's been roughly 5,000 people who have left after hurricane maria. so mostf is due to the drop, in addition to them wanting te o conso

[applause] the people of minnesota want to see an evenly divided legislature. during my final year in office i will not support any budget, tax or policy proposals that would threaten that stability i urge legislatures to do the same. we face other challenges. after several years of lowering the states uninsured rate, it jumped from 4.3% to the nation's second lowest to 6.3% last year. the number one reason was people could no longer afford it. they were fed up of being charged higher premiums and deductibles for lesser coverage. teresa and brian raise soybeans and they have joined us here tonight. thank you for being here. you feed our nation, you feed our world. thank you. like most minnesota farmers, teresa and brian are being hurt by exceptionally low commodity prices. now they are being charged $33000 this year for their healthcare premiums. that's outrageous and it's wrong. meanwhile, some insurance companies have stopped offering individual coverage because of lower returns and washington uncertainties. this exodus has caused many minnesotans, especially

i don't see how any legislature will ever be able to redistrict. so let's say that a legislature is drawing a particular map or particular district. let's say at a map, and they say they have two possible plans they are considering. they both have very low population deviations, exactly the same. the territory is contiguous. but they say, look. plan a is out party, minimalist advantage, and plan b is the other party with more advantage. let's pick from one that favors our party. in your view that is unconstitutional i gather. mr. kimberly: if what the map is doing is looking at the way individuals have voted in the past and on that basis attempting to make it more difficult for them to achieve electoral success moving forward, that is the specific intent, there is burden imposed as a consequence. jus. alito: the answer is yes. mr. kimberly: that could be a violation. jus. alito: you can't take all consideration of partisan advantage out of districting. mr. kimberly: our theory does not require taking all of this. jus. alito: i don't see how your th

that is what they were hoping the legislature would do, and they were hoping the legislature would findlternate revenue sources to pay for the unfunded pension system rather than cutting the pension system as it stands. while the legislature did try to find revenue in the budget, they did it through conservative tax cuts/increases. they cut the income tax while raising the sales tax on some services. that was not exactly what the teachers were talking about when they talked about finding revenue. [laughs] host: what are the teacher specifically looking for? guest: they wanted to see marijuana legalized and taxed. they wanted to see casino gambling, and they wanted to see cuts to some tax loopholes. while freezing taxes on services is technically a cut on loopholes, there are other loopholes that are kind of bigger, a little less controversial than making you pay a tax when you go to get your car repaired that they were hoping the legislature would go after. host: you wrote "when it comes to future teachers that they're going to have to work longer, because before becoming eligible for r

if we were the republican party and had controlled the state legislature, then we control the districts like this. in the first scenario, there are four districts where no majority exists. -- createdreated in impact through their vote, leaving one republican-controlled seat. this is fine because the most people would have their voice heard. but look at this, we can cut blued the m&ms so although m&ms are in two regions. not only can state legislators packed districts, but they can also crack them, they can cut around the blue and m&ms so the democratic vote is diluted across as many districts as possible, giving the republicans a chance for a 4-1 majority. >> how does this relate to wisconsin? the 2010,sult of wisconsin is a very gently men -- a very gerrymandered state. when all was said and done, there were five republicans representing wisconsin alongside only three democrats. the number of dump delegates -- the number of delegates representing our state should be equal. >> we used always have two congresspeople from the milwaukee metropolitan area and then wisconsin lost a seat. and

the company dominated the montana state legislature. urging, theny's legislature divided montana's at-large district into two districts. not surprisingly, rankin's territory now had a large democratic population. with her house seat in jeopardy, she ran for the senate, but lost the republican primaries. she ran as an independent in the general election, but lost that race as well. some say wellington rankin's prediction had come true. perhaps his sister's career was over with the no vote. jeannette had one more opportunity to take a stand in the last few months of her term. rankin and like-minded members argued for the creation of a committee on women's suffrage, which formed after the election to consider an amendment to the constitution. before the end of her term she , served as the ranking member of that committee, which was an unusual honor given her lack of seniority. before a packed gallery in 1919, she opened the debate. in this picture, notice the people wearing white. that was the color of women's suffrage. and why i am wearin

, it is always a struggle because money in state a struggle legislatur legislatures, but we tried to a structure that takes long-term approach to funding education. it always needs to be tweaked, needs to be looked at and something always discussed legislature. i just think you asked for my advice and how to go about it, i montana, we appreciate it, we want our kids to have the best education possible. we want to make sure that prepared to go out into this world, regardless of what want toareer they might pursue. background that allows them to do that. the other thing that we in at, too, notlooking verybody is -- will want to go to college, we have to make sure they have their opportunity, we ave to look at things like apprenticeship and on-the-job training opportunities. make sure we're giving exposure to our young people to great opportunities, they can, you know, stay in montana, if that is what they raise their family, work and have a quality life. thing for important us. in montana, graduation rates are oing up, we're seeing, you know, challenging our young people to do better a

i thought him the legislature but there were too many democrats. i went down and actually filed the original repeal of the gas tax. after fighting the attorney general for six months in court, we decided to merge our efforts with the other efforts in the groups from san diego. i am pleased to report that i've gathered thousands of signatures. we have tens of thousands of volunteers. with 940,000 signatures, plus, this will be on the november ballot and you will be able to repeal the gas texan november. >> mr. cox , you are shaking your head. >> i can tell you right now that we have gathered thousands of signatures. we were the original authors of the repeal of the gas tax. the point is, if you think about this, 12 that's were regular, $.20 per gallon of diesel. and your car registration going up up to $175 a year. you ask yourself, does this really hurt me that much? it is only $2.50 every time i fill up my gas tank. what it really hurts as a single mother who has to drive back and forth from work. this text might seem small to many of the californ

it is no coincidence the republican legislature broke my district into three districts.onster like this appears in red and blue states alike. many argue gerrymandering violates the 14th amendment's equal protection clause, and make some people's vote count more than others. >> it is unconstitutional but there is not a reliable measure of fairness for determining if a partisan gerrymandering violates the constitution. >> the supreme court has had we don't like partisan gerrymandering we don't. know how to identify how much partisanship is too much. come back when you have a good test for us. >> in lawyers working on the 2014, case presented the supreme court's a possible measure of gerrymandering called the efficiency cap it it measures how many votes are wasted for one party or another. lawyers argued when this gap is too large, it should be unconstitutional. ♪ >> i am talking about colonoscopy is more popular than congress. for some miracle reason, 90% of them were elected. it is a fixed system. that is what gerrymandering is about. this is why i say, the only one who c

elected officials when you have that threat of spending you have elected officials and the state legislatures throughout the country and to be put even more guns on the streets and the nra can use the threat of spending in combination with lobbying spending $1.8 million in 2007 on federal funding in washington d.c. just last year they spent over $5 million of a combination of their lobbying and campaignof spending with her 5 million members they say which i think from capitol hill but as it shows it is pretty clear with their leadership they are out of step but only with american voters for their own members to support universal background checks they have been vociferously opposed so they are out of step and have a lot of outside influence we have to shift back to voters with money and politics to ensure everybody has an equal voice in the decisions that affect their lives so you found in 2015 the nra paid a single vendor to focus on building its membership why? >> so to engage in building membership because the tactics and interest groups do this but to pass on the policies but also to buil

attica scott is the first african american woman to serve on kentucky's state legislature in 20 years. thousands of teachers dissented on the capital yesterday. can you talk about what it was like to simply get into your building? >> definitely. thank you so much. i actually come from an activism and organizing background with the former coordinator of kentucky jobs of justice. it was exciting to see this kind of mobilizing and organizing that we needed to have more on in kentucky. we need more of that righteous anger that dr. king had. we need more people descending on the state capitol and say kentucky deserves better. i was there with my daughter who is a public school student who wanted to be in frankfurt to support her public school teachers and to support public employees across kentucky. we made our way through the crowd speaking to people, high ing with people. and for both of us, we understood clearly why it was such a tight cap way to get for my office in the capital annex into the capitol building, now is just fine becausee were not the legislators trying to destroy public

i worked hard in the last campaign to get as many elected to the legislature. i went around the state and try to get more folks but it just didn't work out. donald trump more by then texas. i don't like this but he also won in my district by 4%, he won all the congressional districts which left me the only democrat as you all know. that's not acceptable as far as i am concerned. but we have an opportunity. we can get more members elected around the state. we have a shot at that and we can begin to turn america around. it's true paul ryan will not be the speaker of the house. [applause] but there is someone waiting in the wings, kevin mccarthy and donald trump wants him because kevin mccarthy does everything donald trump wants him to do that's why he will be the next speaker of the house. this is nonsense. we know what they want to do and tried to do in the house but they failed to do much of it in the senate. when the test the tax cut it wasn't only because they wanted the benefits to g the top 1%, is not the only reason they wanted to do with them if they want

legislature doesn't. we have meetings, we can't hold a majority here, four commissioners can't talk about an item that's going to be heard because it violates the brown act. legislature doesn't have that. so i think the legislature should actually start following the rules that they pass to maybe everybody else follow. it was a real eye opener, and i really think senator wiener, who is a good legislator should take some of his -- the legislature's own advice and follow their own rules. san francisco magazine, april 2018, a really good read. it it it's got, be big tech be at the same samed -- tamed? and it's a really good article. it's got what i would say a few little mistakes, but there's a really interesting quote by mr. ken rich. he says, "however, there is another alternative to upzoning, one that would ease pressure on the city to upzone very widely. there are 60,000 units in the city's development pipeline of which only 12,000 are under construction." and when we have the housing inventory report to

the real argument should have been to the legislature. they're the ones that should have argued get rid of this law. it still baffles me that nine unelected judges can use penumbraes to find right of privacy. >> we'll let that stand as a comment. go to jeremy in washington, d.c. >> caller: good evening, huge fan of the program, and so glad that c-span and the national constitution brought it back for a second season. my question relates to the piece that you had from cbs where dr. buxton talked about the economic unequality effect the law had. you and your guests had talked about how, you know, women who had means to see a private doctor wouldn't be affected by this law. but it seems to me that the law would equally apply to private as well as a public clinic is there. i'm just wondering what the basis of dr. buxton's statement there was. >> i think dr. buxton was referring to the also illegal practice of private physicians writing prescriptions for women, or providing women with contraceptives under the table. that if you knew where to g

virginia where teachers struck protesting one and two percent raises a few days later the state legislature coughed up five percent in oklahoma where teachers have the third lowest salaries in the usa and many school districts of cut back to a four day week geography teacher quipped it's like the arab spring but it's teachers spring governor mary fallin said teachers want more but it's kind of like having a teenage kid that wants a new car. and then the oklahoma education association released this statement over a decade of neglect by the legislature has given our students broken chairs and classrooms outdated textbooks that are duct taped together four day school week classes that have exploded in size and teachers who have been forced to donate plasma work multiple jobs and go to food pantries to provide for their families we are saying enough no more empty promises the governor and the legislature need to act now to fix this and joining us are two public school teachers from oklahoma allison qubad and larry cagle larry is one of the leaders of the grassroots group oklahoma teachers unite

and our state legislature has been not funding public education for a long time to the levels that werovide a 21st century education while using 20th century instructional materials. >> just so i understand, they want their salaries increased, they want their pensions increased or they want their classroom supplies increased? >> so in kentucky our fight started with our pensions and the threat of our governor taking away our defined benefit pensions last fall. and our organization spent almost the entire fall meeting with legislatures, having pension forums trying to educate themselves and the public about the details of our eight public pension systems in kentucky which are grossly underfunded mainly due to a lack of dedicated funding by our legislature for many years. it's not a partisan issue in our state. it's not the fault of any one party. it's just been a simple lack of funding by many legislatures to fund what they should have been funding in order to keep our pension systems at the level that they need to be to be sustained. >> so its primarily about pensions? >> it is about

and the legislature in their wisdom has given us the ability to have somebody who is an expert in this area educated jury. and you saw that as our number area educated jury. and you saw that as oui’ number one area educated jury. and you saw that as our number one witness, our first witness in this case. and i think in the process she was able to explain the process she was able to explain the situation, and then when you heard from the different people and you saw what the defense was trying to do despite those sexual assault myths that lie out there, i think there is a recognition and again i hope it is not a tax that is continue because it did not work. and it is a situation where it was a different trial. we were able to do that on the front end of the case. and i think that is the benefit of having done this once before. without the legislature making that change, only a few years ago to allow someone like doctor barbara, you would've been able to call her to the stand. how critical was she in your ability to secure a conviction today? i think that will bea conviction today? i thi

proud of paul tonko and his relationship with louise, a friendship that goes back to the state legislature many years ago in new york. louise came 31 years ago to the congress. you came more recently. but your friendship goes back longer. so dear were you to her. so here we have louise, and i don't have a magic minute, so this is not an eight-hour prepsition. in high heels. although i'd love to do that for louise any time. but let me just make some wishes. i wish you could have all been in rochester for louise's memorial service. to her -- hear her grandchildren talk about her. as a grandmother, myself, any time i go to a service now, i think, what do the grandchildren think? what do they know about their grandmother? how much -- do they know how much their grandmother loved them? louise's grandchildren do and did. hopefully we'll be hearing more from them. they spoke magnificently about her personally. ot so great about her cooking. wouldn't you say? not that day anyway. but anyway. they just loved her so much. and she was about the future. but she had a tremendous respect for the past as

and we really can take both houses of the iowa legislature back. we really have a shot at this. i really worked hard the last campaign to try to get as many folks elected to the iowa legislature. i went around the state. i tried to keep folks in and get more in. and it just didn't work out. i mean, you know, donald trump won our state by more than he won texas. this is not good! okay? i really don't like this very much. all right? but he also won my district. by 4%. he won all of the congressional districts. it's left me the only democrat, as you all know in the house of representatives. it's not acceptable, as far as i'm concerned. but we have an opportunity to do better. we can get me re-elected. we can get more members of the u.s. house elected around the state of iowa. we really have a shot at that, folks. and we can begin to turn america around. you know, it's true that paul ryan will not be the speaker of the house any longer, all right? [ cheers and applause ] that's true. but you know, there's a guy waiting in the wings whose name is kevin mccarthy, all right? and donald

>> well we haven't heard a lot from legislatures.e want them to hear us. we want them to know we're not going away. we're here to stay until they fund us. >> reporter: west virginia lasted ten days, teachers walk out in wfr. are you guys seeing what's happening in arizona, kentucky, are you motivated by it? >> we were encouraged by what happened in wfr. it gave us the excitement that maybe we can do the same thing. i have a cousin who teaches in arizona, i know they're watching us. we want to be an example to them on how to do it and do it right just how wfr was to t us and kentucky is. >> reporter: thank you so much. halle you heard it. they know arizona and kentucky is watching them. this is the first teacher wouk out in oklahoma since 1990. >> mariana, do you have any guidance on how long these teachers plan to keep this up? >> reporter: most of the educators we've been speaking to say they will keep it up as long as they have to. let's hear from them directly. very briefly, how long do you plan to walk out on the job? >> as long

so annexation has been important them governor and the legislature attacked the question of annexationnd have made it virtually impossible for cities to annex. the tea party crowd has had vaned the idea that they need to actually vote on annexation within those communities. nobody is going to vote to annex themselves interest a city. so i means annexation is badly damaged and the goose that laid the golden egg and keeps texas cities strong is damaged. so it doesn't make sense as a business proposition. >> the voting on annexation is one thing the legislature discussed and another thing that's yet unresolved by continues to be discussed is voting on increasing property taxes. a concern that property taxes in cities are too high. we can probably say with certainty that by getting out of the business of funding public education, and pushing that down on to taxpayers, the state is as upon for property tacks being high or not creating access to health care and uncompensated care cost are passed along. a lot of reason -- >> the precursor of that when i was mayor of san antonio with a spendin

the florida legislature, despite their heroic efforts of the members of legislature on this stage, had an opportunity to ban assault weapons, they did not. but i am proud to tell you that even as we pushed congress to do the right thing and even as my colleagues here are working in tallahassee to do the right thing, if we're successful, and simultaneously we're working to put on the ballot in 2020 a constitutional amendment to ban assault weapons -- [applause] >> if our elected officials outside of those on this stage, if those elected officials do not see that there is a clear majority of people who understand that this common sense step to keep our community safe necessary put it on the ballot and let the citizens show directly. yes, thank you very much. [applause] >> hi, i'm a member of msg mobilizing alumni. we're now over 11,000 alumni strong. my question isn't for the people on stage. my question is for the students here, what do you need from 11,000 of us, literally, whatever it is, you name it, we'll make it happen. [applause]. >> after the event please call me. >> thank you ve

i have to tell you -- it is because of the florida legislature. because of the courageous students that have stepped up and said a know of is enough, 10 cities in broward county filed a lawsuit against the state. [applause] you have broward county doing the same thing and four other municipalities including the city of coral springs. cities across the state are standing up and saying -- enough is enough. >> i want to remind you all at the state of florida just passed a law that raised the age limit to 21. and the day that the bill was filed, the nra filed a lawsuit. -- ite need now on top of is a step. not all of it. what happened with the first step is the nra was ceiling. the attorney general, pam bondi needs to hear from you. she will either defend the state vigorously or she will not. she needs to hear from you. i don't think anyone would disagree with me that we have one of the best armed forces in the world. am proud toan and i have served. thinking about the gun problem, i thought the army was pretty smart. during world war ii, some men wou

legislature should be required to apply speech requirements. >> i don't understand that. why does it apply to nonprofits and not for profits? the purpose is to get this information out to poor women, don't you think there are examples of poor women who stumble into a for-profit facility. wouldn't it be beneficial to know they can get treatment at costs or most for-profits exempted. >> for-profit clinics do not treat women who need free and sliding cost care in the same way. it is always possible to imagine a new boundary for the law. but under scrutiny and a legislature can concentrate its efforts -- >> what about individual doctors? why are they exempt? >> individual doctors specialize as a category in treating people who have a pay to pay for care whether they are enrolled in medicaid or health insurance or have the finances. free clinics are not on the same page. >> you get very suspicious pattern and i don't know that we need to go into statistics about what the percentage of covered but we havepro-life a brief from a party in the state court case where the state cour

. >> plus, in the wake of the wine country wildfires, the state legislature considers 10 proposals toe sure that consumers get what they paid for when they try to rebuild. >>> former president george h.w. bush was moved out of intensive care into a regular patient room at a hospital in houston today. doctors are pleased with his progress and hope to release him in the next few days. the president was admitted to houston methodist hospital with a blood infection on sunday. that was just one day after funeral services for his wife former first lady barbara bush. >>> the president of france appears to pose a challenge today to the trump administration during a speech in a joint session of congress. he touched on several topics but the one that received some of the biggest applause was his support for the paris climate accord. >> i believe in building a better future for our children which requires offering them a planet that is hospitable in 25 years. >> macron didn't come out and criticize president trump for pulling out of the paris accord but he made clear his support for environmenta

as a member of the virginia legislature he shot the south by declaring black people entitled to liberty, , and these are his words, entitled to liberty and freedom by the great law of nature. in doing so richard henry lee planted the first seeds of emancipation in virginia. 12 years before britain's colonies declared independence, lee was first to threaten king george iii with revenge, and if he did not, with the staff. it didn't matter much to the average taxpayer, a penny here or there. a staff had to appear on every legal document, wills, bills, contracts and consumer products. when i was a boy there were stamps on decks of cards, on cigarette packs. that's the stamp act and american stamp act anyway. all those pennies added up to what they said were to protect americans against indians and attacks. americans said they could protect themselves. they said taxation without representation was no better than confiscation or theft of property. remember that never been before tax directly. lee felt so strongly he wrote to the firebrand activist samuel adams and together they organize commi

governor abbott in the state legislature in texas is not going to sit around and do nothing. they've allocated billions of dollars to support direct support u.s. border patrol. to deter, detect and inner detect smoking between the entry. it includes units we put in place and over a thousand troopers engaged in border activities. we have 13 aircraft including nine helicopters and four bored planes that are dedicated. we have 42 texas rangers to establish and address public corruption. but also to work on occasion. we had to work on federal officers because they weren't -- at the federal level, they are now. those are the types of thing that are important to texans. as texas goes, so goes the nation. we recognize it could be done. it's not rocket science. mr. judd mentioned a few of those things that clearly would enhance or secure the border, without a question. so, those things is people, technology, infrastructure. the equipment and recourses that they need and there's no question that they could do it if they had that. because they don't have it, the department of public sa

the first law enacted by the legislature. so we have more incorporated towns than any state in the nation. it's damn anywhere in the continent with added irony that an oklahoma most of us don't live on the reservation in the land of the red peopl dead peops what oklahoma means. one of the first things that is most important to me to express is the quintessential as a profoundly american place by history, its culture and all the forces that have gone into creating a state so that is the essay and when there is another that creates the subtitle that speaks to the wound, the encroachment on the native land. this was true from all over so if you've got oklahoma we are situated in the physical map. native tribes if you look where the original homelands were they are spread all over the continental sou so that is one f the ways than oklahoma became the promised land for a member who came here. that migration and encroachment from the native point of view of settlers that happened all across the continent had been here for the land

and legislature had some awareness of this. but they didn't draw a statute with that as the primary -- >> i don't know. i came away from these briefs and i think i got the impression that there are about six or so centers, maybe 70, that are really pro-life. for religious reasons of different kinds. right? they don't want to talk about abortions. and then it seems to me maybe there are thousands of centers altogether in california or several hundred. i really did end up wondering well are all those centers, do the poor women really get the information about free abortions? i have no idea. i mean the fact that they may have doesn't mean they tell everybody about it. i don't know what they're like. so this is my question. don't we need a trial on this? i'm just telling you right now i have no idea and your answers don't tell me. they're not empirical. you haven't told me women who don't go to the 67 centers but do go to 700 are all informed whether the center is a member of the cal medical program or not. i don't know whether the

california lawmakers could set the price for healthcare services under new measure in the state legislature. the bill introduced yesterday by san jose assemblyman, comes amid a fierce debate over rising prices on healthcare. it is expected to be opposed by doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers, who argue that price controls will encourage doctors to move out of the state of california. the measure would affect private health plans, including those offered by employers.>>> the night circuit court of appeal has ruled that workers cannot use salary history to justify paying women less than men. it started with a teacher in fresno who learned at lunch one day that her male colleagues received higher pay, even though some were less qualified and had less seniority. >> reporter: the ninth circle -- circuit court of appeals decision was written by judge stephen reinhardt and one of his final cases before his death last month. he stated quote, women are told they are not worth as much as men, allowing higher salaries to justify a wage differential perpetuates this message entrenching in

in fact, the only involvement that we have with our legislature is when there's a public safety issue. so that's the line we draw. and in fact, like a lot of a.g.'s offices, when you have responsibility to issue attorneys general opinions, which have the force and effect of law, you're in the middle of politics all the time, the state is not going to be able to trust you and your office when it comes to the issuance of attorney general opinions. so i think attorneys general uniquely ought to be state officers who do their best to focus on the law and not policy. and is that's an important part of, again, what we have tried to establish as a priority. in terms of an area where we're seing a lot of activity in our office, j.c., we're involved in opioid litigation in our state against five manufacturers. we're in state court. and that is a challenge for our office and it's certainly stretch regular sources. but at the end of the day, you have to recognize whether it's palatable or not, sometimes businesses do bad things. and when businesses do bad things they need to be held accountable.