The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has been ruled to have violated federal and state laws by failing to provide effective communication to blind Medi-Cal consumers, and must now offer accessible options including large print, audio, and Braille formats.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to deploy 300 California National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, calling it an unlawful effort to circumvent her earlier ruling that Oregon National Guard members could not be federalized or deployed.
Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old charged in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is challenging the federal government’s pursuit of the death penalty, arguing that it is unconstitutional and that Attorney General Pamela Bondi’s public comments and actions have tainted his right to a fair trial.
Two housing advocacy groups have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for allegedly unlawfully diverting $75 million in permanent supportive housing funds to advance the Trump administration’s social agenda.
California officials have condemned the Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of National Guard soldiers and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles, citing an estimated $120 million cost to taxpayers and a violation of long-standing civil-military limits.
A federal court permanently blocked the Trump Administration from using federalized California National Guard troops and U.S. Marines for law enforcement in Los Angeles, ruling that the deployment violated the Posse Comitatus Act and infringed on state sovereignty.
A federal judge has found Channen Smith to be “actually innocent” in the 2010 killing of Dominique Jasper, but Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is pushing to keep Smith incarcerated despite the court’s ruling and new evidence suggesting he was wrongly convicted.
An 11-year-old boy appeared in Sacramento Immigration Court with his grandmother, who could not afford a lawyer and were waitlisted by a church group overwhelmed with similar immigration cases, and was reassured by Judge Loreto Geisse that the government cannot remove him until she tells them to, while Assemblymember Mia Bonta introduced Assembly Bill 1261 to provide legal representation for all unaccompanied immigrant children in the state.
Former President Donald Trump used a doctored photo to justify the deportation of a Maryland father, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite there being no credible evidence of MS-13 ties.
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