November 29, 2018
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra urged a federal judge on Wednesday to force the government to hand over a roughly $1.5 million gun law enforcement grant the Trump administration withheld over the state's sanctuary city policies, saying that the administration's "crude attempts" to block funding are endangering communities.
October 26, 2018
A California federal judge said Friday he would grant the government's bid to clean up an injunction order barring the Trump administration from denying the state public safety grants based on its sanctuary city policy, adding he would change the scope of the language to leave room for an appeal.
October 19, 2018
California has told a federal judge that the Trump administration hasn't given up hopes of blocking sanctuary cities from obtaining federal public safety grants and is instead trying to dodge the court's ruling that the policy unconstitutionally violates the separation of powers.
October 05, 2018
A federal judge gave the state of California a quick win in its suit challenging the Trump administration's attempts to block sanctuary cities from obtaining federal public safety grants, finding Friday that the policy violates the constitutional principle of separation of powers.
September 05, 2018
A California federal judge seemed poised Wednesday to find that the Golden State's refusal to share information with federal immigration enforcement officials wasn't a valid reason for the Trump administration to withhold federal public safety funding, but he also expressed doubts about whether he could extend that finding nationwide.
March 14, 2018
The state of California on Tuesday asked a federal court to reconsider denying the state's bid to temporarily bar the Trump administration from potentially penalizing California for its so-called "sanctuary" policies towards immigrants unauthorized to be in the U.S.
March 06, 2018
A California federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration's bid to toss two suits challenging its policies towards so-called "sanctuary" communities for undocumented immigrants, but rejected California's request that the court greenlight a $1 million federal grant the state believes is in jeopardy.
February 28, 2018
The federal government sought to end two suits over new restrictions that deny law enforcement grants to so-called sanctuary cities, but a California federal judge said Wednesday he'd allow at least some of the claims brought by the state and by the city of San Francisco to stand.
January 31, 2018
In response to the Trump administration's earlier move to dismiss California's challenge to new conditions on a federal public safety grant, the state struck back Tuesday that requiring local law enforcement to share critical immigrant information violates the separation of powers and contradicts the intent of Congress.
January 17, 2018
The Trump administration moved Wednesday to dismiss California's federal court challenge to new conditions on a federal public safety grant, saying states have to comply with immigration laws in order to receive the funding.