Jeff Sessions' Lawsuit Is An Invitation for California to Break the Law

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions has a message for California: Be like us, break the law.

By Jennie Pasquarella

California flag with red star in upper left, brown bear in the middle, with text that reads: California values families, #STANDwithCAValues

Is It Constitutional to Lock Up Immigrants Indefinitely?

Supreme Court deals a setback for due process but leaves the most important question for lower courts to answer. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Jennings v. Rodriguez, a class action lawsuit challenging the federal government’s practice of jailing immigrants for months or

By Ahilan Arulanantham, Michael Tan

We the People Dare to Create a More Perfect Union. Image of Statue of Liberty.

Spread California Love for the Defiant Ones

Define "defiance." I've posed this statement to school administrators across the country after they've used it to kick students out of school. Some for dancing, breaking the dress code, or not paying attention. I myself had this experience. One of my earliest school memories was of being deprived

By Amir Whitaker

People rallying at the state Capitol in support of SB 607

Tony Rackaukas's Perfect (and Illegal) Online World

The Scandal-Ridden Orange County D.A. Hits 'Delete' on All Negative Comments — Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas is one of the most scandal-ridden and criticized government figures in California. He has been roundly disparaged by courts, legal experts, the Orange County community and

By Brendan Hamme

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackaukas's Facebook page

Immigrant Children Do Not Have the Right to an Attorney Unless They Can Pay, Rules Appeals Court

[UPDATE] September 20, 2018[/UPDATE] On September 19, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the decision in C.J.L.G. v. Sessions, which denied immigrant children the right to a court-appointed attorney, even in asylum cases with life-and-death stakes. The Court ordered the case to be reargued before a panel of 11 judges. The hearing will occur the week of December 10.

By Ahilan Arulanantham

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Let’s Stop Sexual Harassment and Violence Before They Begin With Comprehensive Sex Ed

To stop the objectification of women and power imbalance that fuels this societal epidemic, we need to start long before anyone enters the workplace. If we want to be serious about making long-term cultural change to stop sexual harassment and violence, we should provide comprehensive sex ed in all

By Melissa Goodman

Students sitting in a classroom

Fifty Years After MLK's Death, We're Still Fighting for Civil Rights

Martin Luther King Jr. was a radical leader who demanded an end to racial injustice, criticized the complicity of white moderates, and advocated for a radical redistribution of political and economic power. His leadership was buttressed by the work of organizers, Black women and men, LGBTQ people

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -Martin Luther King Jr. at the march on Washington

The future is ours to build

2017 was a hard year. But in a thousand ways, big and small, you showed up. You loved, you learned, you resisted — and you cleared the way for a better year in 2018.

California poppies with the text: The future is ours to build

A Moral Rot Among Riches: The UN investigates homelessness and poverty in the U.S.

Philip Alston, the​ United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, travels the world to investigate horrific living conditions. On a recent fact-finding trip, he found people barely surviving in vermin-infested homeless encampments, a devastating scarcity of affordable housing and municipalities that make it a crime to be homelessness, as if that could be a cure. He even spotlighted the fact that dental care was so scarce for the poor that he saw people who had lost all their teeth.

By Eve Garrow

UN Special Rapporteur visits Skid Row