State Watch

National Review: A Monumental Tug-of-War

Earlier this month, President Trump shrank two national monuments in Utah by 90 percent each, about 3 million acres in all. This is just the latest pull in the endless tug-of-war between presidents ov...

2026-08-26

Attorney General Bonta Leads Multistate Coalition in Opposing New Barriers to Sponsorship of Unaccompanied Children

August 26, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]— California Attorney General Rob Bonta, leading a coalition of 19 attorneys general,submitted a comment letteropposing the U.S. ...

2026-08-26

Washington Examiner: Stealing land in data center fight—What happened to property rights?

Last month, Nashville's mayor filed legislation to condemn a piece of private property. Often, condemnations are used to allow governments to acquire land to build roads or schools. But in this case, ...

2026-08-26

Attorney General Bonta Leads Amicus Brief Challenging Trump Administration Rule Restricting Length of International Student Visas

August 26, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]— California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, co-leadinga multistate coalition,filed an amicus briefurging the U.S. District Cou...

2026-08-26

Policymaking from the bench has harmed servicemembers for more than 75 years

If you're injured by the negligence of a federal employee—through medical malpractice, a car accident, or some other careless mistake—you generally have the right to sue the United States for compensa...

2026-08-25

Attorney General Bonta Secures Transformative $17 Billion Settlement with Meta, Proposed Settlement Includes Fundamental Changes to Instagram and Facebook

August 26, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected] must make massive transformations that will reduce the risk of harm from its platforms — and will do it within months.OAKLAND— Cali...

2026-08-26

California Supreme Court upholds farmer’s First Amendment victory

On August 19, 2026, the California Supreme Court put a stop to a government agency's repeated efforts to shut down a citizen's lawsuit against it.Spencer Defty is a small agricultural business owner i...

2026-08-25

National Review: A Colorblind Constitution Is Not Just a Partisan Pet Project

"Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens," Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan famously wrote in his dissent in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson....

2026-08-25

The Hill: When farming requires federal permission

Imagine the federal government threatening you with a $62 million fine for making routine improvements to your own land.It sounds like something out of an Orwell novel, but that was the reality facing...

2026-08-25

Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit Challenging USPS Rule Restricting Mail-In Voting, Interfering with Elections

August 26, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]— Co-leading a coalition of 24 attorneys general and the Governor of Pennsylvania, California Attorney General Rob Bonta todayfil...

2026-08-26

Attorney General Bonta Protects the Environment and Americans by Opposing a New Oil and Gas Rule on Public Lands

August 25, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]— California Attorney General Rob Bonta led a multistatecomment letterin opposition to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM)...

2026-08-25

Attorney General Bonta Defends State Laws Protecting Preschoolers from Discrimination

August 25, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected] —California Attorney General Rob Bonta yesterday joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general infiling an amicus briefin the U.S. ...

2026-08-25

Attorney General Bonta: At California Department of Justice, Public Safety is Job Number One, Two, and Three

August 25, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected] ANGELES— California Attorney General Rob Bonta today released statistics highlighting the importance of the public safety work at th...

2026-08-25

Governor Newsom announces judicial appointments 8.24.26

2026-08-25

Attorney General Bonta Responds to U.S. Supreme Court Decision Allowing President Trump’s Second Elections-Related Executive Order to Be Implemented

August 24, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]— Co-leading a coalition of 23 attorneys general and the Governor of Pennsylvania, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today re...

2026-08-24