California is mounting a campaign of obstruction against Trump: Dobbs

FBN's Lou Dobbs weighs in on the California attorney general's decision to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its push to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall. 
 It is becoming increasingly clearer that the state of California has organized much of its state government and legal resources to mount a campaign of harassment and obstruction against the Trump administration.

Brown OKs immigrant protections

California Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Senate leader said Monday they've agreed to changes in proposed legislation that would further restrict interactions between law enforcement officers and federal immigration agents. The agreement came on the same day the state sued the Trump administration over its decision to end a program that shields young immigrants from deportation.

The Latest: Officials make deal on California immigrant bill

The Latest on California's efforts to prevent a Trump administration crackdown on illegal immigration and an order to end a program giving deportation protection to young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally or by parents who overstayed visas. California Gov. Jerry Brown and the state's top Senate leader have agreed to legislation that would further restrict interactions between state and local law enforcement officers and federal immigration agents.

California Challenges Trump’s Decision to End DACA

California sued the Trump administration Monday over its decision to end a program that gives protection from deportation to young immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children or by parents who overstayed visas. The lawsuit's legal arguments largely mirror those already filed in a lawsuit last week by 15 other states and the District of Columbia.

The Latest: Mexican diplomat meets with California officials

In this Jan. 24, 2017 file photo, Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray speaks to reporters in Mexico City. Mexico's top diplomat will make a two-day visit to immigrant-friendly California as relations between his country and the U.S. government have strained over President Donald Trump's border wall and immigration and trade proposals.

The Latest: Washington AG plans immigration suit ‘very soon’

The Latest on reaction to the Trump administration's decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation : Washington state's attorney general says he plans to sue the Trump administration over the decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation, an act he said was "a dark time for our country." Bob Ferguson, who earlier this year sued Trump over the travel ban affecting mostly Muslim nations, said at a news conference Tuesday he would file a lawsuit "very soon."

157 people killed by police in California in 2016

Violent police encounters in California last year led to the deaths of 157 people and six officers, the state attorney general's office said Thursday in a report that provides the first statewide tally on police use-of-force incidents . All of the state's 800 police departments supplied detailed data from 2016, including demographic information on the civilians and officers, the type of call that led to the violence and the officers' justification for using force.

California, San Francisco sue over sanctuary city grants

The state of California and city of San Francisco are suing the U.S. Department of Justice over President Donald Trump's sanctuary city restrictions on public safety grants. In a news conference Monday, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and City Attorney Dennis Herrera, both Democrats, announced the lawsuit, which makes California the first state to challenge the administration on its sanctuary city policy of denying funds to cities that limit cooperation with enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.

California official sues EPA over records on administrator

In this June 2, 2017, file photo, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt looks back after speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to provide records he contends could show conflicts of interest by Pruitt on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017.

PEOPLE v. NAVARRA

Audrey R. Chavez, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez, Lewis A. Martinez, Tia Coronado and William K. Kim, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Federal Judge Blocks California GunMagazine Confiscation Scheme

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday that blocks California from enforcing their gun magazine confiscation law. U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez said in his ruling that the law, which would make it illegal to possess any gun magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition, likely violates the Second Amendment rights of the plaintiffs in the case.

Atop 2017 losses, a sobering challenge for Democrats aiming at Trump next year

Republican Karen Handel won election to the House on Tuesday after a campaign spent ignoring President Trump. Democrats have hoped that President Trump 's deep unpopularity would propel them to gains in next year's midterm election as they fight to take control of the House and improve their position in the Senate .

California is playing defense under Trump

Xavier Becerra, California's combative attorney general, has become the Golden State's face of resistance to the Trump administration's domestic initiatives, the blunt voice rejecting the president's attempts to roll back the progressive immigration and environmental policies so central to California's sense of itself. At a June 16 press conference, for example, Becerra pushed back against stricter immigration enforcement, saying his office would review conditions at immigrant detention facilities in conjunction with a legislative measure that prohibits local governments from renting out jail beds to U.S. Immigration and Customs.

Citing religious refusal of adoption rule,a

Saying that a new Texas law allowing child welfare providers to deny adoptions to parents based on "sincerely held religious beliefs" is discriminatory, California's attorney general on Thursday banned state-funded travel to Texas. The attorney general's office said in a news release that Texas' House Bill 3859 "allows foster care agencies to discriminate against children in foster care and potentially disqualify LGBT families from the state's foster and adoption system."