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In July, Newsom signed into law a rollback of a stringent environmental statute that opponents of new development have used in recent decades to tie up proposed housing projects in litigation, often for years.

Legal experts called the texting of the stock trades a potential violation of ethics statutes defining blind trusts as blind only if the trust is managed without consultation.

She faces one count alleging that she violated a federal bank fraud statute, and another alleging that she made false statements to a financial institution.

“It just seems like such a tortured reading of the statute,” the judge said.

This claim is expressly authorized by statute and not barred by the immunity statutes,” Robertson wrote.