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California's Duplex Law Promised Homes on Every Lot and Delivered Few SB 9 let California homeowners split lots and build duplexes almost anywhere. Few did. Here is why costs, local rules and financing blunted the law, and what California tried next. California's Proposition 50 and the Argument Over Fighting Fire With Fire Why California voters set aside their own independent map in 2025 to answer Texas, what Proposition 50 actually does, and the honest case for and against fighting a gerrymander with one. California's Reparations Task Force and the Report It Delivered in 2023 What California's first-in-the-nation reparations task force found, what it recommended in its 2023 final report, and why so little of it has become law. Leaving Paris Twice and What the US Withdrawals Changed The United States has quit the Paris climate deal twice. Here is the case that states, cities and markets limit how much a presidential walkout can actually do. Shield Laws and Telehealth Abortion Across State Lines Louisiana indicted a New York doctor in 2025 for mailing abortion pills, and New York refused to hand her over. How shield laws work and why they set up a constitutional collision. State Constitutions Are Where Rights Are Being Won Now From Pennsylvania's 2018 map ruling to abortion ballot measures and youth climate cases, state constitutions now protect rights federal courts will not. Here is the case for fighting there.