Arrested Despite DACA
By Francisco Rodriguez My earliest memory is of the day I first came to Portland. I was…
AG Pushes Back on Trump’s Targeting of Sanctuary Jurisdictions
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Wednesday filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case City and County of…
California Responds to Trump Climate Change Policies
This week President Trump, flanked by the executives of polluting companies and miners, signed his long-promised executive…
Public Safety Risks of Joining Trump’s Deportation Force
By Domenic Powell You may have heard how Trump is trying to bully local police departments into…
Trump Threatens Sanctuary City Funding; California Officials Respond
On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Trump Administration threatened to withhold federal funding from so-called…
President’s Campaign Rhetoric Should Stick with Him
By Matthew Segal The ongoing travel ban litigation has triggered intense debate on whether an assessment of…
Monday Morning Thoughts: What We Learned from the Failure of the Health Care Repeal
When Donald Trump promised that repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would be a top priority, I…
Cal School Districts Support Challenge to Trump on Immigration
(From Press Release) – Dozens of California school districts and leading education organizations today announced the filing…
Cal AG Files Amicus Brief in County of Santa Clara v. Trump
Brief Filed Supporting Challenge to President Trump’s “Sanctuary Jurisdictions” Executive Order (Press Release) –Attorney General Xavier Becerra…
California Chief Justice Pushes Back against Trump Immigration Tactics
California’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, in a letter to the Trump administration, urged them to…
Two Courts Rule That Executive Order Represented a Muslim Ban
By Omar Jadwat The federal courts have dealt two more blows to President Trump’s ongoing attempt to…
Court Blocks Trump’s Revised Muslim Ban
On Wednesday, a federal judge in Hawaii issued an order blocking the implementation of President Trump’s revised…
Californians Sue in Challenge to Latest Muslim Ban
ACLU Amends Suit on Behalf of New Plaintiffs Challenging Trump’s Ban on Immigrants & Refugees ( From…
Commentary: How Do We Maintain Civility in Contentious Times?
The issue of civility is a theme that has been a recurring one for the Vanguard over…
An Analysis of the New Proposed ACA Replacement Bill
While the Republicans have for a long time pledged to repeal the Affordable Care Act, analysts always…
Commentary: If the Media Is Complicit, Community Organizing Is the Answer
Yesterday a reader sent me an interesting op-ed in the New York Times by University of Houston…
Commentary: New Muslim Ban Still Violates the Constitution
Trump Imposes New Scaled-Back Muslim Plan Six weeks after President Trump’s original executive order was blocked by…
Despite Claims to the Contrary, Crime Isn’t Out of Control
By Inimai M. Chettiar and Ames Grawert The president once more painted a bleak picture of a…
Can We Trust ICE to Tell the Truth to Local Officials?
In the last month and a half since the start of the new administration, there seem to…
World Citizen: The Wave of Right Wing Imperial Power – Part 1
by Scott Ragsdale This is the third in a series of essays designed to draw conclusions from…
