Monday Night Massacre?
In what critics are likening to former President Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” in 1973, President Trump…
Monday Morning Thoughts: If It’s Chaos We Wanted…
Yesterday my wife flew from LAX to the Sacramento airport – she stepped through history on the…
Trump’s Unconstitutional Program of Anti-Muslim Discrimination
By Cecilia Wang In 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis and its 937 passengers, almost all…
Sunday Commentary: The Epic Fail of the Hate Crime
I found myself thinking back to September 11, 2001. In the days following the attacks, we had…
Judge Blocks Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees
In President Trump’s First Week, ACLU Hands Him First Stinging Rebuke By Anthony D. Romero This is…
Justice Watch: Responses to Trump on Muslim Policies and Immigration Ban
League of California Cities, National League of Cities and U.S. Conference of Mayors, Concerned with Provisions that…
ACLU of California Responses to Trump’s Discriminatory Executive Orders
Organization vows to fight measures throughout the state, calls on state policymakers to stand firm in their…
Trump Orders Mexican Border Wall, Targets Sanctuary Cities
On Wednesday, President Trump began his sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigrants with an executive order to begin…
DAPL Threatens Indian Rights and the Drinking Water of 18 Million People
By Stephen Pevar President Trump’s executive order Tuesday has an impressive-sounding title: “Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals…
DAPL Confrontation Likely Back On as New President Shifts Policies
Back in December, then-President Barack Obama handed a major victory for thousands of protesters and Indigenous People,…
Monday Morning Thoughts: The Dawn of a New Era
Starting on Friday and continuing over the weekend, millions of people came out to protest the new…
Trump Has the Keys to the Surveillance State, but CA Has a Long History of Changing the Locks
By Anna Porto When Donald Trump takes the oath of office later today, he will inherit an…
Trump and Sessions: Great for the Private Prison Industry, Terrible for Civil Rights
by Carl Takei & Katie Egan Donald Trump’s victory has been nothing but good news for the…
Flag Burning is Free Speech
By Lee Rowland President-elect Donald J. Trump tweeted that anyone who burns a flag should be jailed…
Fear, Davis Values and the Recent Election
“The question is: ‘What are we going to do with that fear?’” By Mayor Robb Davis Following…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Climate Change Policies in Doubt?
Back in September, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climate change policy. …
Would Proposed Targeting of Muslims Would Be Unconstitutional?
By David Cole As a candidate, Donald Trump notoriously called for a ban on the entrance of…
Surveillance State Keys Turned Over to New President
By Ashley Gorski and Patrick Toomey On January 20, President Obama will hand Donald Trump the keys…
Justice Watch: Not Allaying Fears of Muslim Registry
If the Trump administration wants to reduce anxiety and fear, perhaps they ought to issue more definitive…
Sunday Commentary: Local DAPL Protest Sign of Things to Come
It was a far cry from the aggressive law enforcement tactics at Standing Rock itself, but it…
