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Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Democrats are convinced that life in the state is just too affordable and that not enough people have left. After continuing to hike gas prices to record highs and announcing a ban on cars by 2035, they’ve hit on an exciting new way to make life impossible for anyone who, unlike Newsom, doesn’t have his own vineyard or, unlike Rep. Ro Khanna, their own golf course.

When legal ethics collide with modern campaign machinery, the issue is not a headline about partisanship; it is the repeatable pattern by which ordinary consulting work can trigger extraordinary scrutiny once it intersects with a high-salience prosecution. Understanding that mechanism—what grand jury subpoenas mean, how judicial recusal standards actually work, and where appearance concerns end and legal conflicts begin—is the only reliable way to read cases like the federal probe touching Authentic Campaigns, the Democratic firm once co-owned by Loren Merchan.