"Ruling on a lawsuit by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, Orrick issued a preliminary injunction that prohibits the administration from enforcing Trump’s Jan. 25 order by cutting off funding to defiant cities and counties. His ruling will remain in effect unless it is overturned by a higher court."
READ MORE related to Beltway: New twist in Trump-Russia probe as Congress turns focus to Michael Flynn -- Sacramento Bee's MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
Fox News is facing yet another legal hurtle as the media monopoly continues to reel over the aftermath Bill O'Reilly's ouster.
LA Times' MEG JAMES: "Fox News on Tuesday confronted additional allegations that minorities who worked in the network’s payroll division were subjected to years of verbal abuse and “plantation-style management” by high-ranking white executives."
"In the first of two race discrimination lawsuits filed in New York, 11 current and former Fox News employees alleged that senior management turned a blind eye to “appalling racial discrimination.”
"The class-action case amends a complaint filed in March by former Fox News employees Tichaona Brown and Tabrese Wright who alleged that former Fox News controller Judith Slater regularly made racist and inappropriate comments. Slater was fired Feb. 28."
READ MORE related to Economy: GOP drops US-Mexico wall demands as spending talks advance -- AP's ANDREW TAYLOR
Protests broke out in LA after an allegedly innocent woman was swept up in a massive raid and now faces deportation due to her undocumented status.
LA Times' MATT HAMILTON/RICHARD WINTON: "Dozens of people gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday to protest the detention of a 54-year-old woman who now faces deportation for living in the country illegally."
"Teresa Vidal-Jaime was picked up by federal authorities Monday after a massive drug bust at a Boyle Heights apartment complex where she lives. During the raid, her husband was arrested for drug possession and investigators seized more than 30 pounds of cocaine and $600,000 in cash, according to the U.S. Border Patrol."
"But Vidal-Jaime’s daughter, Claudia Rueda, an immigration activist in Los Angeles, joined community organizers to protest her mother’s detention, calling it an unlawful raid that swept up an innocent woman in a criminal probe."
READ MORE related to Immigration: Trump loses another round in court, this time over funds for sanctuary cities -- Sacramento Bee's FRANCO ORDONEZ; U.S. judge blocks Trump order threatening funds for 'sanctuary' cities -- LA Times' MAURA DOLAN/JOEL RUBIN
Plain clothes officers have been accused of inciting violence at Davis' Picnic Day by nearly running over a group of people in an unmarked police vehicle; three of the ten assailants have been arrested.
Sacramento Bee's CATHY LOCKE: "A visitor to UC Davis’ Picnic Day on Saturday who witnessed an incident in which two officers were injured said she blamed police for the crowd’s hostile reaction and the fight that ensued."
"Isabel Lynch, a Sacramento resident and student at Sierra College in Rocklin, said she has attended Picnic Day for several years and was there Saturday with friends. After attending events on campus, they went to a party at what she described as townhomes or apartments in the College Park area. After about an hour, Lynch said, people started leaving and she was told they had been asked to go."
"Lynch said she was waiting with other people to cross Russell Boulevard. “I was on the edge of the sidewalk, waiting to cross, when a van came and nearly hit us,” she said."
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The political resurgence of the far-right has prompted the NRA to go after California's gun control legislation with both barrels loaded.
Sacramento Bee's ANGELA HART: "A firearms advocacy group has gone to court to challenge the constitutionality of California’s new assault weapons ban, as well as other major gun control laws passed last year by the Democratic-controlled state Legislature, arguing that “assault weapon” is a “political term."
"The California Rifle & Pistol Association filed a lawsuit against the state Monday in federal court targeting six laws that took effect Jan. 1. Those, along with provisions of a successful 2016 statewide ballot initiative, have made California’s gun restrictions the strictest in the U.S., according to a ranking by The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun-control nonprofit."
"California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is named in the complaint as the sole defendant."
