that was about a year ago

A judge in California ended up writing a special law just for Jack McClellan, which essentially banned him from the whole state of California.

It is pretty certain that this was an illegal action on the part of the judge, but it appears that virtually no one in California is concerned about the rule of law or justice or anything like that, and Jack doesn't have the money to fight it on his own, so he left California.

Yes, the whole incident stunk to high heaven, but they did let Jack out (they didn't want to push the issue too much - the police and the courts had to know they were breaking many laws), and he is no longer in California.

More recently, California's Austrian-born governor has agreed to sign an anti-Jack McClellan law that seeks to criminalize "stalking by proxy", which, of course, is something that Jack never did, even by the terms of their new law. But politicians are not really interested in good law or good practice, they are mostly interested in winning re-election by appealing to the worst instincts of an ignorant and hate-filled citizenry.

This is only one small part of the disintegration of the rule of law in the United States. Others involve the creation of ex post facto laws and extraterritorial laws (by which, for example, the United States has put British citizens in jail for businesses they ran in Bermuda, although their businesses were legal in both those countries).

Of course, it should also be noted that Britain has been at the forefront of some of these same types of illegal laws, and that other nations in Europe are beginning to follow suit.