Nevada County’s congressman is praising a recent court ruling that says Governor Newsom has been abusing his power under the California Emergency Services Act. Sutter County Judge Sarah Heckman says the act only gives the governor power to issue orders and regulations and to suspend certain statutes, not create new ones. Congressman Doug LaMalfa says since the beginning of the pandemic has acted more like a monarch…

LaMalfa says by making unilateral and hasty policy changes that benefit him and his party, without input from state lawmakers, he has been extremely harmful to rural California, its small businesses, and morale in general…

The court has also prohibited Newsom from further exercising any power under the Emergency Act which amends, alters, or changes existing statutory law, or makes new statutory law or legislative policy.