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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July 21, 2024
With about 100 days until the presidential election, can Democrats land on a candidate, refocus their message on beating Trump and win?
July 20, 2024
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July 18, 2024
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July 17, 2024
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July 16, 2024
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July 16, 2024
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July 15, 2024
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July 14, 2024
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