California Republican leader under consideration for key Department of Justice post
Harmeet Dhillon, a California GOP leader, is under consideration to run the civil rights branch of the U.S. Department of Justice. Due to the Trump administration's positions on voting rights issues as well as department leader U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions' past controversial statements regarding...
Trump’s Address to Congress Draws Praise, Pushback From Asian-American Leaders
President Donald Trump sought to strike an optimistic, more conciliatory tone in his first joint session speech before Congress Tuesday night, a move that received positive reactions from some Asian-American Republicans and skepticism from some Democrats. Trump spoke for one hour and touched on a...
California GOP Accepts Trump, Headwinds and All
SACRAMENTO — As he sat on the edge of the ballroom stage at the Sacramento Hyatt Hotel Saturday afternoon, California Republican Party Chairman Jim Brulte seemed to have not a care in the world. “I’m actually excited about our prospects,” Brulte said. “We’ve spent a...
California Democrats respond to president’s ‘out of control’ remark
SACRAMENTO — With the national spotlight on a state immigration bill, prominent California Democrats lined up to defend their state after President Donald Trump called it “out of control” during an interview with Bill O’Reilly that aired Sunday on Fox News. “Out of control? Trump...
With travel ban lifted, Bay Area residents rush to fly relatives back to U.S.
As news spread that President Donald Trump’s executive order barring certain refugees and visa-holders from the United States had been temporarily lifted, anxious families across the Bay Area hustled Saturday to get relatives stranded overseas on planes headed west. With a legal battle brewing in...
San Francisco Sues Trump Over Sanctuary City Funding Ban
San Francisco has filed the first lawsuit against Trump’s sanctuary city order, which also affects Philadelphia. In what could be the first of a wave of lawsuits over the issue, San Francisco has sued President Donald Trump over his plans to strip so-called “sanctuary cities”...