AG Barr Announces Resumed Scheduling of Federal Executions
by Henry Stiepleman DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – Attorney General William Barr this Monday ordered the Federal Bureau…
Supreme Court Affirms Ohio Judge’s Order to Release Medically Vulnerable Incarcerated People
By Linh Nguyen & Metyia Phillips On May 26, 2020, the Supreme Court refused the Trump Administration’s…
Commentary: California’s Housing Crisis Driving the Nation’s Homeless Increase
Last Friday, HUD released its annual estimate of homelessness and that figure shows that people living on…
Sacramento Private Migrant Detention Center Targeted by Protests Locks Doors, Claim Immigration Advocates
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Apparently, Florida-based GEO Group – working with Homeland Security…
Sac Rally Targets Company Days after State Bans Private Prisons and Detention Centers; Davis Rabbi Leads Service
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Florida-based GEO Group – one of the companies…
Lawsuit Filed Challenging Trump Administration’s Attempt to Trample California’s Authority to Maintain Longstanding Clean Car Standards
(From Press Release- AG’s Office) – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today, with Governor Gavin Newsom and…
Trump Sets Up a Court Battle over Auto Emissions as Newsom and Becerra Prepare to Fight Back
On Wednesday the Trump administration will revoke California’s authority to set emissions rules stricter than federal standards,…
Larry Krasner Helped to Defuse an Armed Standoff. Now a Trump Appointee Is Saying Krasner Caused It.
By Sarah Lustbader At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, while attempting to serve a warrant, Philadelphia police found…
California Governor and Attorney General Oppose Administrations Public Charge Rule
Special To the Vanguard The Trump administration is considering changes to the public charge rule – a…
Sunday Commentary: What Are We Going to Do about Right Wing, Domestic Terrorism Manifesting as Gun Violence?
First it was Gilroy. Yesterday it was El Paso and last night Dayton. I am probably going…
The First Step Act Freed People – Now Prosecutors Are Trying to Lock Some of Them Up Again
By Sarah Lustbader Monae Davis, a beneficiary of the First Step Act, left prison on March 7….
The Government’s Arguments for Restoring the Death Penalty All Fail
By Sarah Lustbader Attorney General William Barr announced that the federal government would begin executing people for…
Federal Government to Resume Capital Punishment after Nearly Two-Decade Lapse
With more and more states moving to end the death penalty, the Trump administration is naturally moving…
Trump Administration Proposes Another Form of Family Separation
By Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski and Linda Morris The world has watched in horror as migrant families have been…
300 Come to Davis to Demand Garamendi Help Close the Camps
From coast to coast, protesters came out to demand the federal government end the suffering of children…
As Trump Tweets Hateful Threats, States are Protecting Immigrant Rights
By Naureen Shah This week, President Trump kicked off his re-election campaign by tweeting a threat to…
Court Says No to Trump Wall… for Now
By Dror Ladin From the beginning of his campaign for president, Donald Trump claimed that he was…
UC Davis Prof, Others Provide Humanitarian Aid to Migrants at Border Despite Trump Admin Threats
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – University of California, Davis political science professor Brad Jones…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Dangerous Assault on the Free Press?
My view of Julian Assange is complicated. On the one hand, I am a believer in the…
Public Deserves to See the Mueller Report With as Few Redactions as Possible
By Jennesa Calvo-Friedman Few matters are of greater public interest than the contents of the report produced…
