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DOJ Sues San Jose Over $1,600 Concealed Carry Fee: ‘An Unconstitutional Tax on the Second Amendment’

September 17, 2026 1:00 pmSeptember 17, 2026 1:00 pm

The Justice Department sued the City of San Jose and the San Jose Police Department on Wednesday, arguing the city’s nearly $1,600 concealed-carry permit fee is an unconstitutional barrier to the Second Amendment, the highest such fee in the nation...

Civil Rights Don’t Get a California Exemption

September 14, 2026 11:00 amSeptember 14, 2026 11:00 am

On September 10, Defending Education filed a federal civil rights complaint against Oakland Unified School District, accusing two of its programs, Latino Men & Boys and Latina Mentoring & Achievement, of handing out tutoring, mentoring, health support, and cash stipends...

DOJ Finds UC San Diego Medical School Unlawfully Discriminated on the Basis of Race in Admissions

July 20, 2026 4:45 pmJuly 21, 2026 2:11 pm

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced Monday that the University of California San Diego School of Medicine (San Diego Med) violated federal civil rights law by using race as a factor in its admissions decisions. The finding,...

Boys in Girls’ Sports: California’s Track Farce Exposed

May 11, 2026 6:00 amMay 11, 2026 6:01 am

Outside Yorba Linda High School this past Saturday, the California Interscholastic Federation’s Southern Section Division 3 preliminaries offered a study in institutional failure. Parents gripped signs. Athletes stretched in silence. A “Save Girls’ Sports” rally, organized by former NCAA women’s...

DOJ Files Lawsuit Against UCLA Alleging Antisemitic Hostile Work Environment for Jewish and Israeli Employees

February 24, 2026 3:54 pmFebruary 25, 2026 1:54 pm

This article has been updated to include comments from Mary Osako, UCLA Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communications The U.S. Department of Justice filed an 81-page civil complaint (see below) on Tuesday, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District...

Scott Wiener is Done Waiting on Nancy Pelosi to Retire; He’s Running For Congress

October 17, 2025 8:46 amOctober 20, 2025 6:50 am

California State Senator Scott Wiener is done waiting on Nancy Pelosi to retire from Congress. He wasn’t supposed to announce a run until 2028. Wiener, known for his contentious and controversial legislation, no doubt saw weakness in Nancy Pelosi, 85,...

California’s Sordid Trans History: Young Female Athletes are Treated Immorally and Dishonestly

June 2, 2025 7:43 amJune 3, 2025 7:26 am

Men dressing in women’s clothing and playing on women’s sports teams should be ridiculed and perpetrators should be shunned. Instead, in California’s current bizarre opposite world, “trans-women” athletes are competing in women’s sports and dominating, and even physically harming female...