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California's 5th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in California. The district is located in the northern San Joaquin Valley and central Sierra Nevada. The district includes all of Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties, western El Dorado County, and eastern Stanislaus, Madera and Fresno counties.
The California Citizens Redistricting Commission certified final district maps on August 15, 2011, and they took effect with the 2012 election. [13] The new districts are described as more "purple" than "red" or "blue" - that is, more mixed in electoral composition compared to the mostly "safe" districts of the previous decade, where incumbents ...
The Fifth Circuit gained appellate jurisdiction over the United States District Court for the Canal Zone. On October 1, 1981, under Pub. L. 96–452, the Fifth Circuit was split: Alabama, Georgia, and Florida were moved to the new Eleventh Circuit. On March 31, 1982, the Fifth Circuit lost jurisdiction over the Panama Canal Zone, which was ...
We've rounded up election guides and endorsement lists from newspapers, other media outlets, political parties and others across the state. Consider this your guide to voting guides.
California is divided into 52 Congressional districts. Each district elects a representative to serve in the United States House of Representatives as part of the California's congressional delegation. California's current districts were drawn in 2021 by a California Citizens Redistricting Commission.
He intended to run for election to a full term. [3] Harris was first elected in 2016 with 61.6% of the vote. There were two elections on the ballot for the same Class 3 seat: a special election for the remainder of Harris's term expiring on January 3, 2023, and a general election for the full term ending on January 3, 2029. Padilla handily won ...
(The Center Square) - California was ranked the nation’s fifth-worst “judicial hellhole” this year, improving from its third-place ranking last year by the American Tort Reform Foundation, a ...
Jennifer Walker Elrod (born Jennifer Leigh Walker; September 6, 1966) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as the chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She previously served as a state court judge on the 190th District Court of Texas from 2002 to 2007.