Kevin Rector is a legal affairs reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering the California Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and other legal trends and issues, and chipping in on coverage of the 2024 election. He started with The Times in 2020 and previously covered the Los Angeles Police Department for the paper. Before that, Rector worked at the Baltimore Sun for eight years, where he was a police and investigative reporter and part of a team that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in local reporting. More recently, he was part of a Times team awarded the 2023 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress for coverage of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. He is from Maryland.
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Nov. 14, 2024
The president-elect’s pick of Matt Gaetz for attorney general signals that he wants the Justice Department to take a sharp-elbowed, hyperpartisan approach to legal matters.
Nov. 14, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s win after a virulently anti-transgender campaign has left many queer and transgender people especially frightened about the future.
Nov. 8, 2024
The last time Donald Trump was president, California led the liberal resistance to his agenda. Now it is poised to reprise the role.
Nov. 6, 2024
Federal law enforcement and swing-state election officials both reported bomb threats to polling stations Tuesday, saying they believed the threats originated in Russia.
Nov. 5, 2024
In Fulton County, Ga., officials said they received multiple bomb threats, including two incidents that forced officials to briefly close polling locations.
Nov. 5, 2024
The political world was abuzz after respected pollster J. Ann Selzer showed Kamala Harris winning 47% of likely voters in the state of Iowa.
Nov. 3, 2024
This has been one of the most astonishing presidential election cycles in modern American history, full of unprecedented political moments and bizarre politicking. It’s been exhausting as it nears its end.
Nov. 2, 2024
Final pre-election poll results from UC Berkeley/LAT survey on how Californians feel about the Senate and presidential contests.
Nov. 1, 2024
Donald Trump falsely claimed that the Los Angeles Times not endorsing any presidential candidate reflected a poor view of Kamala Harris at the newspaper and a favorable view of him.
Oct. 30, 2024