Bob Egelko

“This is the latest example of the Trump administration’s weaponization of the federal government to go after people it does not agree with,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom once sent the California National Guard to the city. But any attempt by the president to dispatch troops for law enforcement purposes would collide with a 147-year-old federal law.

Southern California school district won’t be allowed to begin meetings with a prayer, a federal judge rules, even with Supreme Court ruling allowing post-game football prayer. 

Efforts to roll back life sentences for nonviolent offenders under California’s “three strikes” law got a boost Thursday from the state Supreme Court.

Legislation aimed at eliminating antisemitism in California schools, while using a controversial definition of the term, was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday.

While professional groups oppose conversion therapy, Justice Samuel Alito asked whether the medical profession had been “politicized, taken over by ideology.”

As federal officers and ICE agents stream into U.S. cities, some people facing arrest have resorted to spitting at them. President Donald Trump says those who do so should expect to be met with...

A federal judge said that the Trump administration’s letters terminating medical and scientific research grants are evidence of “viewpoint discrimination.”

The 58-year-old man’s lawyers said the settlement was the largest the city of Oakland has ever paid for dangerous conditions on public property.

The measure puts Newsom in the awkward position of potentially cracking down on classroom speech as President Donald Trump accuses California schools of antisemitism.