The Trump administration’s Department of Justice will deploy election monitors to five California counties on Election Day, the department announced Friday, in what it describes as an effort to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.”

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Fresh off their failed attempt to kill Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plan in the Democratic-controlled Legislature, California Republicans and anti-gerrymandering groups this week launched an all-out resistance to defeat what they regard as an unconstitutional ballot question.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday filed California’s 39th lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging new immigration enforcement requirements it placed on federal funding for crime victims.  States were set to receive more than $1.2 billion

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants that it suspended at UCLA last month, delivering a major setback to efforts to force the university into a $1

The California district court judge, Rita F. Lin, set a hearing for Aug. 12. Lin’s order is a response to a Monday filing from lawyers representing University of California researchers. They wrote in their filing to Lin that the National Science Foundation must undo last week’s suspensions.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The Trump administration exceeded its authority and violated constitutional protections in attempting to defund Planned Parenthood, according to a lawsuit filed today by California Attorney General Rob Bonta along with 22 other states and the District of Columbia.

Massachusetts District Judge Leo Sorokin paused President Donald Trump’s executive order halting birthright citizenship on July 25, after finding that a national injunction is the narrowest way to provide relief to state plaintiffs. The Jan. 20 executive order ordered federal departments to not recognize the citizenship of children born

Twenty state plaintiffs won an injunction July 1 blocking the mass termination and reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The 58-page ruling from Rhode Island District Judge Melissa DuBose halts HHS’ plan, announced March 27, to fire 10,000 out of the departments’ 28,000 employees,