Politics Reporter

Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

The mayor's earlier call for 15% budget cuts set off a full-throated backlash from the district attorney and public defender's offices.

The ATF’s regional leader says authorities are seeing a ‘huge increase’ in such weapons. 

The DA’s office claims judges are biased, but a criminal defendant says disqualifying a judge violated his rights. 

The earnings came to light this week in newly filed ethics records. 

Early results show voters leaning toward electing Mayor London Breed’s top picks and policies, but she still faces an uphill climb on major issues.