Tag: California

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared on Fox News with Shannon Bream Thursday night. (screenshot via Fox News)

Jeff Sessions on ICE raids in California: ‘It’s exactly what ICE officers are supposed to do’

Diana Stancy Correll · March 8, 2018 5:46 am

Chairman Mao Zedong once identified steel as a critical piece of the industrial supply chain for a modern economy. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)

Navarro co-author: Trump’s steel tariffs are all about security

Greg Autry · March 8, 2018 5:01 am

Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., reiterated that the state is "in the business of public safety." (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Beltway Confidential

California is mad that the DOJ wants it to actually enforce the Constitution

Jenna Ellis · March 7, 2018 10:39 pm

Dave Rubin and other thinkers are heading to the University of California, Berkeley this month for events on the topic of free speech. (YouTube)

Red Alert Politics

Dave Rubin, Dennis Prager both head to UC Berkeley

Lauren Cooley · March 7, 2018 10:12 pm

After Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf got word of an impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in the Bay Area, she tweeted a warning to help potential targets of the operation prepare. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Beltway Confidential

ICE says Oakland mayor’s warning to illegal immigrants protected convicted criminals

Emily Jashinsky · March 7, 2018 10:01 pm

Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., has taken a first step to ending abuses of privacy by introducing H.R. 4916, the Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Don’t give the IRS personal information it doesn’t need

Bradley A. Smith · March 7, 2018 8:16 pm

The Department of Justice filed the lawsuit Tuesday in a federal district court in Sacramento over three separate states government's' immigration policies. California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra appeared together in Sacramento following the announcement of the lawsuit. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Gov. Jerry Brown: Jeff Sessions is ‘basically going to war’ against California by opening lawsuit over immigration policies

Katelyn Caralle · March 7, 2018 7:26 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told law enforcement officers at the conference Wednesday that the Justice Department sued California because state laws are preventing federal immigration agents from doing their jobs. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Jeff Sessions hits California lawmakers for ‘radical open borders agenda’

Kelly Cohen · March 7, 2018 5:18 pm

California Gov. Jerry Brown is one of the targets of a Justice Department lawsuit aimed at abolishing three state laws the DOJ says obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration law. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Department of Justice sues California over ‘sanctuary’ status

Kelly Cohen · March 7, 2018 2:00 am

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra asked for a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration's decision to withhold a law enforcement grant to the state, but a federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled against taking that step. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Federal judge allows Trump to withhold grants to California as part of sanctuary city crackdown

Melissa Quinn · March 6, 2018 8:08 pm

A common surname and an undiscerning law enforcement database landed Tom McClintock, then a state representative, on the no-fly list. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Beltway Confidential

Think twice about that bipartisan ‘no-fly, no-buy’ gun control bill

Philip Wegmann · March 6, 2018 6:48 pm

As concerns over climate change and falling costs have advanced the cause of solar and wind energy, development of hydropower, which also contributes zero carbon emissions, had stalled until recently.

Energy and Environment

Forgotten hydropower plots a comeback in Trump era

Josh Siegel · March 6, 2018 5:01 am