‘Doubling down on stupid’: Newsom slams Senate waiver vote, Trump

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California officers moved rapidly to start out one other authorized battle in opposition to President Donald Trump’s administration after the U.S. Senate voted Thursday to revoke federal waivers that allowed the state to phase-out fuel powered automobiles and fight air air pollution.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Legal professional Basic Rob Bonta stated they plan to file a lawsuit on the grounds that Congress’ use of the Congressional Assessment Act to rescind the waivers is illegitimate. The legislation permits Congress to overturn actions of federal companies, beneath particular circumstances, and not using a supermajority vote. California secured the waivers final 12 months from the U.S. Environmental Safety Company beneath President Joe Biden.

• Bonta: “California has received approximately 100 waivers since waivers have been given and the CRA has never been applied to any of those waivers before. … This is a workaround for Trump to punish California for defying his efforts to bring us backward.”

Whereas Bonta emphasised that Trump’s actions aimed to impede California’s authority to implement its personal state legal guidelines, Newsom targeted on how revoking the waivers threatened California’s public well being and the nation’s electrical automobile trade. Saying that the administration was “doubling down on stupid,” the governor argued that this is able to additional allow China’s dominance over the electrical automobile market.

• Newsom: “Big day for Big Oil. … Big day for China. Terrible day for your kids, terrible day for air quality, terrible day for innovation and entrepreneurship.”

Because the state readies itself for its twenty third lawsuit in opposition to Trump since his second time period, extra California legal guidelines could also be beneath menace from the administration and GOP members in Congress, together with dozens of current and proposed legal guidelines regulating synthetic intelligence and legal guidelines that profit immigrants missing everlasting authorized standing.

For extra on the Senate vote and the waivers, try CalMatters’ story from Alejandro Lazo and Alejandra Reyes-Velarde.

Can a 36-word warning about making a false criticism in opposition to a police officer be a violation of free speech? The town of Los Angeles argues that it does, as its case in opposition to the union representing Los Angeles Police Division officers lands earlier than the state’s Supreme Court docket.

As CalMatters’ Nickel Dura explains, when submitting a criticism in opposition to an LAPD officer, complainants are proven this warning on the shape, in daring and in all caps:

“IT IS AGAINST THE LAW TO MAKE A COMPLAINT THAT YOU KNOW TO BE FALSE. IF YOU MAKE A COMPLAINT AGAINST AN OFFICER KNOWING THAT IT IS FALSE, YOU CAN BE PROSECUTED ON A MISDEMEANOR CHARGE.”

The town of L.A. needs to strike that language, arguing that the warning discourages individuals from submitting complaints and curbs their rights protected beneath the First Modification. However the Los Angeles Police Protecting League union says the warning is constitutionally sound, and it’s needed to stop false complaints that might disrupt an officer’s profession.

The California excessive court docket is predicted to situation a ruling someday this 12 months.

Learn extra right here.

Every week after Gov. Newsom revealed his plans to scale back the amount of cash the state is predicted to supply to assist fund native information shops, Google stated it too will lower a few of the help it had beforehand agreed to paywrites CalMatters’ Jeanne Kuang.

The tech large stated it would now pay $10 million in its first 12 months contributing to California’s native information fund, reasonably than the $15 million it initially pledged lower than a 12 months in the past. The corporate agreed to solely put cash into the fund as a match to state {dollars}, and it acquired the inexperienced mild to take action after Newsom proposed to scale back the state’s first-year contribution from $30 million to $10 million.

Alphabet, Google’s father or mother firm, has a market cap of greater than $2 trillion. Ten million {dollars} is 0.0005% of $2 trillion. There are three bench gamers on the Los Angeles Lakers who earned greater than $10 million final season.

Collectively, California and Google have shrunk their dedication to help the state’s struggling information trade from $45 million to $20 million. Up to now, no newsroom has acquired cash from the fund.

The cash is a part of a compromise lawmakers made with Google final 12 months: In change for the Legislature pulling payments that might have pressured tech corporations to pay shops for his or her content material, Google and the state would put tens of millions of {dollars} right into a fund over 5 years to help California journalism.

Learn extra right here.

With greater than two-thirds of school college students experiencing meals insecurity within the state, 5 California campuses are tackling the problem in ways in which transcend typical meals pantries. Discover out what they’re doing from Amy Elisabeth Moore of CalMatters’ Faculty Journalism Community.