Politics

California is home to one in four undocumented young people protected by an Obama-era program that the Trump administration just ended—numbers that have prompted state Attorney General Xavier Becerra to announce he plans to file a lawsuit against the administration over its decision.

A bill that would have made it more difficult and expensive to drill off the California coast died in the legislature, leaving alive President Trump’s threat to open federal waters for oil and gas prospecting.

As befits a good murder plot, California lawmakers target potential victims by placing the bills on what they call the “suspense file.”

The Trump administration has rescinded the Obama-era program that allowed some undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to work and avoid deportation. Today Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the program, which he called unconstitutional, would wind down within six months. He pointed to Congress as the only body that can legitimately help those […]

Editors note: Assemblymember Shirley Weber was nominated to be California Secretary of State on Dec. 22, 2020 by Gov. Gavin Newsom, filling the seat vacated by the governor’s appointment of the previous secretary, Alex Padilla, to the US Senate. After this profile, Weber also led a successful effort in 2019 to change the rules for […]

The very reason Arnold Schwarzenegger called GOP Assemblyman Chad Mayes the “future of the Republican party”—his work on climate change—was what ultimately cost Mayes his leadership post.

A Democratic legislator has introduced a state resolution opposing Trump-backed federal legislation that would allow out-of-state gun owners to pack concealed firearms in public places throughout California.

California’s Obamacare exchange, Covered California, is struggling to respond to uncertainty over whether the Trump administration will continue to support the health care program.

After an artistic career that propelled him from the south side of Chicago to poetry nights in the Obama White House, the 45-year-old rapper Common is now working to influence state policy. A resident of Los Angeles, Common is trying to change the criminal justice system in California.

Fear that the Trump administration would make good on his threats to stop payments to insurers for Obamacare has subsided, for now, after a spokesman said all August payments would be made.