Besides the decision overuling the District of Columbia handgun ban, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important opinion today in the case of Federal Election Commission v. Davis, holding that yet another part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law violates the First Amendment.

The Court found that the so-called "Millionaire’s amendment," which establishes elevated contribution limits for non-self-funding candidates for Congress running against well-heeled self-funded candidates, is unconstitutional because it imposes different contribution limits for candidates running against each other.The opinion reaffirmed the opinion in the famous Buckley v. Valeo case which held that a candidate’s expenditure of personal funds for him or herself is a right based on First Amendmentprinciples tofully "advocate his own election." The Court found there was not a sufficient elimination of corruption or the perception of corruption to justify unequal contribution limits just because one of the candidates hasheavily funded themselves.

The court made the right decision.… Read More

FR Publisher Jon Fleischman is in the midst of a multi-day trip to the State’s Capitol, maintaining, renewing and initiating contacts to better serve FR readers. This morning we’re pleased to offer this guest commentary from Lester Snow penned exclusively for the FlashReport. Snow serves in the Schwarzenegger Administration as the Director of the State Deparment of Water Resources…

FR Publisher Jon Fleischman is in the midst of a multi-day trip to the State’s Capitol, maintaining, renewing and initiating contacts to better serve FR readers. This morning we’re pleased to offer this guest commentary from Lester Snow penned exclusively for the FlashReport. Snow serves in the Schwarzenegger Administration as the Director of the State Deparment of Water Resources…

Various factors have contributing to the drought conditions we currently face. The Sierra snowpack is only 67 percent of normal,… Read More

The Supremes ruled on the DC handgun ban, effectively invalidating it–according to news breaking right now. Here is the Post’s brief.

Politico looks at incumbent losses and the defeat of longtime Utah Rep. Chris Cannon,here.

California electeds get some ink on climate change legislation, here, from Politico.

Congressman Mike Pence, a leader among house GOP conservatives, pens a RedState column on the fairness doctrine, here, over at RedState.com

Politico looks at Bob Barr’s candidacy for POTUS.

And George Will writes on the impacts of immigration policies on California’s tech sector, from today’s Post.

California Rep. Mike Honda is quite the vocalist, from Politico.… Read More

Congressman Devin Nunes (R), Tulare, representing the Central Valley of California, appeared on Hannity’s America this past week and hit it out of the park on the subject of oil exploration. See the video here. Its great stuff and should be shared wide and far……………..

Nunes is clear, concise and strident in his opinions and recitation of the facts. Great stuff.… Read More

AB 1634 just got out of Senate Local Gov’t this morning. The bill has been changed, amendments make it into a kind of 3 Strikes bill for pet owners. If you get caught with a non-fixed animal that is not permitted to be that way it’s a $50 fine the first time, $100 the 2nd anda mandatory spay/neuter on the 3rd occurance with the pet owner paying for the costs.

Cats only get 2 strikes…which will make dog owner/cat haters giggle and probably cause a rash of discrimination lawsuits. But wait, if cats have 9 lives then that must mean 18 strikes, which is unfair to dog owners and will thencause…… Read More

I’m off to Sacramento through Friday – working to maintain all of the contacts on which I depend to bring you news and commentary! On my SWA flight up from “The OC” are Assemblymen Van Tran and Todd Spitzer. Tran was down for a McCain cashectomy on major GOP donors hosted by George Argyros. I ran into Spitzer yesterday for the swearing-in of Orange County’s new Sheriff, Sandra Hutchens. Oh, gotta go! What’s that phrase? “Wheels up!”… Read More

The Fresno State Bulldogs – the only unseeded team in College World Series history to make the final three game series, will play a deciding third game for the NCAA Men’s Baseball Championship today at 4:00 pm PDT, on ESPN.

The Bulldogs, who struggled against teams such as Sacramento State just before the WAC tournament last month, have been on an absolute tear – knocking out nationally ranked Long Beach State, San Diego, 3rd ranked Arizona State, 6th ranked Rice and 2nd ranked Georgia last night. They face Georgia again tonight for the title.

If they win it will be the first national title for a men’s sports program at the University.… Read More