NEWSOM hit the Senate’s voice, Trump


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Electric for Loading America in Auckland on February 27, 2024. Photo by Camille Cohen for CalMatters

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California employees moved quickly to launch another legal battle against President Donald Trump’s administration after the US Senate voted on Thursday to cancel federal refusals that allowed the state to remove gas cars and fight air pollution.

Gavard Gavin News and California General Prosecutor Rob Bont said they were planning to bring a case on the grounds that The use of the Congress of the Congress Review Act It is illegal to cancel the refusals. The law allows Congress to cancel the actions of federal agencies in specific circumstances without voting on an super master. California secured the refusals last year by the US Environmental Protection Agency with President Joe Biden.

  • Bont: “California has received approximately 100 refusals after refusal and ACR has never been applied to any of these refusals.

While Bont emphasizes that Trump’s actions aim to prevent California’s powers from applying its own state laws, Newsom focuses on how to seize the refusal of the public health of California and the electric vehicle industry. Saying the administration is “doubled stupid” the governor claims that this will allow extra Chinese domination over the electric vehicle marketS

  • Newsom: “Big day for big oil … Big day for China. A terrible day for your children, a terrible day of air quality, a terrible day for innovation and entrepreneurship.”

As the state reads because of its 23rd case against Trump From his second term, more laws in California may be at risk of administration and GOP members in Congress, including dozens of existing and proposed laws regulation of artificial intelligence and laws that Benefit Immigrants Missing Permanent Legal StatuteS

For more information on the Senate vote and the refusals, See the history of CalMatters from Alejandro Lazo and Alejandra Reyes-BellardeS


Trial: Calmatters follows the court cases that California filed against the Trump administration. See it hereS



LA fights LAPD because of a fake complaint warning

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Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department at an active crime scene in front of superb groceries in Los Angeles on December 7, 2024. Photo from Mark Abramson for CalMatters

Can 36 words warn of filed an incorrect complaint against a police officer be a violation of freedom of expression? The city of Los Angeles claims that this is because his case against the Union, representing officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, lands on the Supreme Court of the State.

Calm Nickel dura He explains that when a complaint against a LAPD employee, the complainants show this warning of the form, thickened and in all hats:

It is against the law to file a complaint that you know is false. If you file a complaint against an employee, knowing that it is false, you can be pursued on a violation charge.

The city of LA wants to hit this language, arguing that the warning discourages people to file complaints and limit their rights protected under the first amendment. But the Los Angeles Union of the Los Angeles says the warning is constitutionally stable and it is necessary to prevent false complaints that could violate the officer’s career.

The California Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision sometime this year.

Read more hereS

Google shrinks a promise to help news organizations

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Audience members gather on Google’s Made by Google Event at Mountain View on August 13, 2024. Photo by Juliana Yamada, AP Photo

A week after the governor Newsom revealed plans to reduce the amount of money the state is expected to provide to help financing local news editions, Google also said it would be reduced some of the support that previously agreed to paywrites Calmatters’ Jean QuangS

The technical giant said he will now pay $ 10 million in his first year, contributing to the local news fund in California, not at $ 15 million, which he initially promised less than a year ago. The company agreed to invest only in the fund as a coincidence of state dollars and it made the green light do so after Newsom suggested to reduce the state’s first year’s contribution from the first year of 30 million to $ 10 millionS

Alphabet, Google’s mother company, has a market cap over $ 2 trillion. Ten million dollars are 0.0005% of $ 2 trillion. There are three bench players in Los Angeles Lakers who won more than $ 10 million last season.

Together, California and Google have made their commitment to help the struggle for the country’s news industry from $ 45 million to $ 20 million. So far, no newsroom has received money from the fund.

Money is part of compromise legislators made with Google last year: in exchange for legislative legislative accounts that would force technology companies to pay retail outlets for their content, Google and the state will bring millions of dollars in a five -year fund to support journalism in California.

Read more hereS

And last: Ca Colleges feed students

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Refrigerated food cabinets at Contra Costa College in San Pablo on May 8, 2025. Photo by Florence Middleton for CalMatters

With more than two -thirds of college students who are experiencing nutritional uncertainty in the state, five campaigns in California deal with the problem in ways that go beyond typical food closets. Find out what they do from Amy Elizabeth Moore on Calmatters’ College journalism networkS



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