State Watch

Washinton Examiner: How Congress can claw back its oversight power

After decades of Congress delegating its responsibility to pass laws to unelected bureaucrats, legislators in the current session are flexing their oversight powers. To date, 22 rules coming from the ...

2026-05-05

Attorney General Bonta Protects Critical Homeland Security Funding from Politically Motivated Cut

May 7, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected] Administration drops appeal of final order, permanently and fully resolving case in California’s favorOAKLAND –California Attorney Gen...

2026-05-06

Washington Examiner: How Congress can claw back its oversight power

After decades of Congress delegating its responsibility to pass laws to unelected bureaucrats, legislators in the current session are flexing their oversight powers. To date, 22 rules coming from the ...

2026-05-05

Governor Newsom honors fallen California Highway Patrol officers

2026-05-05

Attorney General Bonta and Secretary of State Weber in Sacramento: Vote Early in June Primary Election and Know Your Voting Rights

May 5, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected] urged to vote early especially after reporting finds increase in ballots arriving too late to countOAKLAND— With the June 2, 20...

2026-05-05

Yale Journal on Regulation: Doomsday Predictions About Jarkesy Just Don’t Add Up, by Mitchell Scacchi

In response to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 decision in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, a NYU Law Professor wrote in The Atlantic, "Jarkesy continues the Court's attack on the federal ...

2026-05-04

Attorney General Bonta Applauds DOJ Analyst for Cracking 30-Year-Old Homicide Case, Killer Arrested

May 5, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected] ANGELES— California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced that, after nearly 30 years, a California Department of Justice (DOJ) cri...

2026-05-05

New York Post: How NYC’s elite high schools discriminate — on mayor’s orders

Yi Fang Chen's son certainly had the grades to get into New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School.Just one problem: He's the wrong race.Chen's son was the victim of the city's Discovery Progr...

2026-05-04

The Hill: New York’s race-based STEM programs face constitutional challenges

For nearly 40 years, New York State's Science and Technology Entry Program or STEP has offered middle and high school students extra preparation for college and careers in science, technology and heal...

2026-05-04

Attorney General Bonta Rebukes Trump Administration for Proposal to End a Nearly Century-Old Restriction on the Shipping of Handguns Through USPS

May 5, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]— California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, today submitted acomment letteropposing an u...

2026-05-05

What’s There to Hide? Attorney General Bonta Urges Transparency in Federal Spending of Taxpayer Dollars

May 5, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]— California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing anamicus briefinCitizens for Respo...

2026-05-04

Attorney General Bonta Urged U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Telehealth Access to Mifepristone, Welcomes Temporary Halt of Fifth Circuit Ruling

May 4, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]. Supreme Court temporarily preserves telehealth access to mifepristone following coalition briefOAKLAND— Co-leading a coalition of 22 at...

2026-05-04