Politics

The Trump administration is increasing its pressure on self-identified sanctuary cities—announcing this week that it would pull some federal grants if cities refuse to notify immigration enforcers when they are about to release undocumented immigrants from local jails.

(Update: On Sept. 12, the Senate voted down AB 186. Its sponsor, Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, said “I am committed to finding a way forward next year.”) Many California communities could open centers inviting addicts to shoot up hard drugs under a little-noticed bill that has cleared the state Assembly and now awaits a vote on the Senate […]

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and 19 other states’ chief law enforcement officers issued a letter urging him to save a program that protects nearly 800,000 young immigrants from deportation.

In California, a deep blue state leading the charge to curb climate change, the question for many Republicans isn’t whether global warming is happening—it’s what kind of policies are best to address it.

It has become a familiar routine for the Sears family: Gather the medical experts, trek to Sacramento, and tell another panel of lawmakers how their 6-year-old son died from the anesthesia a dentist gave him to pull a tooth. Then watch as legislators water down the solution that pediatricians insist would prevent other California children […]

Facing a stack of lawsuits from privacy and civil-rights advocates, President Trump's commission on elections integrity—which California's Democratic Secretary of State likened to a "sham commission"— is temporarily halting its effort to collect voter-roll information from the states.

Seldom missing an opportunity to upstage President Trump, Gov. Brown tonight will announce a global climate action summit, which he will lead in San Francisco in September.

California has lots of company in its refusal to cooperate with the Trump Administration's request for data on the state's voter rolls. At least 44 states have said they will not provide some or all of the information requested by the president's special panel tasked with investigating alleged weaknesses in the nation's voting systems.

California has approved a plan to spend $1 million to review immigration detention centers and local holding centers that house undocumented immigrants for the federal government.

The Trump administration is ramping up its campaign to root out voter fraud, but it won’t be getting much help from California.