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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did the U.S. military illegally engage in civilian law enforcement when they were deployed to Los Angeles in June under the orders of President \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> and Attorney General Rob Bonta say yes. Trump’s Department of Justice says no. The three-day trial to answer this question is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.123.0_3.pdf\">commence today at 10 a.m\u003c/a>. in a California federal district court, with implications for the country as Trump continues to signal a desire to deploy troops to patrol domestic city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has appointed himself chair of a task force on the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-08-05/trump-l-a-2028-olympics-task-force-billion-dollar-security-effort\">telling reporters\u003c/a> that “we’ll do anything necessary to keep the Olympics safe, including using our National Guard or military, OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relatedly, the Department of Defense issued a \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.140.2.pdf\">new activation order\u003c/a> to deploy troops in California for another 90 days on Aug. 5, California lawyers told the court in a filing. That came two weeks after the Marines \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pentagon-withdraws-700-marines-from-los-angeles\">deployed to Los Angeles left\u003c/a> and a week after the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/31/nearly-all-national-guard-soldiers-in-los-angeles-are-demobilizing-governor-newsom-demands-those-remaining-be-released/\">demobilized most of the National Guard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s lawyers assert evidence in their briefs, often redacted \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.114.0_1.pdf\">because of a court order\u003c/a>, that the military took part in law enforcement in violation of 19th Century law called the Posse Comitatus Act. They want a judge to order the Trump administration to permanently \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/ahead-trial-attorney-general-bonta-lays-out-case-against-trump-administration%E2%80%99s\">halt those actions\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046313\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer granted an emergency temporary restraining order to stop President Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard, on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the California State Supreme Court building in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump Department of Justice counters that those engagements don’t count as law enforcement, but rather fall under the category of supporting immigration law enforcement agents or protecting federal buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has not invoked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/unpacking-trumps-order-authorizing-domestic-deployment-military\">Insurrection Act\u003c/a>, a law that would allow the military to engage in \u003ca href=\"https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/unpacking-the-protective-power\">law enforcement activity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How did we get here?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This trial is an extension of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/los-angeles-marines-newsom-lawsuit/\">June lawsuit\u003c/a> that Newsom filed against Trump after the president took over California’s National Guard. Trump did that in response to protests that broke out in the Los Angeles area after immigration law enforcement agents began workforce raids \u003ca href=\"http://google.com/search?q=sergio+olmos+calmatters+mexico+bus+stop&rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS1146US1146&oq=sergio+olmos+calmatters+mexico+bus+stop&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRiPAtIBCTE5MDY1ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\">to apprehend individuals\u003c/a> allegedly in the U.S. without proper authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, about 4,000 troops from the California National Guard and 700 U.S. Marines were deployed to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That month marked a new nadir in the relations between Newsom and Trump. The governor likened the president to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/10/governor-newsoms-address-to-california-democracy-at-a-crossroads/\">failed dictators.\u003c/a> Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeJCrSyEMyk\">endorsed the idea of arresting Newsom\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12051521 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg']Charles Breyer, the judge in Monday’s case and oversaw the June hearings, initially sided with Newsom, ordering that Trump return the National Guard to the governor. A three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/9th-circuit-los-angeles-national-guard/\">blocked that move\u003c/a>. They found that the Trump administration legitimately called up troops to protect federal buildings and federal employees \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.116.0.pdf#page=3\">from some protesters\u003c/a> who tossed chunks of concrete and used trash dumpsters as battering rams. California lawyers said the troops’ presence inflamed the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The June protests lasted about a week and were largely isolated to a handful of city blocks in the downtown area; Los Angeles is roughly 500 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer then allowed California’s lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.101.0_1.pdf\">to depose Trump officials\u003c/a> and gather documents to argue California’s case that the Trump administration was violating the law barring the military from acting as a police force. Trump’s Department of Justice lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.137.0_1.pdf\">tried to cancel the trial but failed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is California’s latest allegation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That Los Angeles residents were “\u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf\">subjected to a form of military occupation\u003c/a>” as federal troops worked alongside federal immigration agents, “often indistinguishable from each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.140.0.pdf\">say that\u003c/a> “never before, in the history of the Nation, has the federal government utilized the military for domestic law enforcement in this manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-scaled-e1752857672682.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-scaled-e1752857672682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048135\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents guard outside of a federal building and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in downtown Los Angeles as demonstrations continue after a series of immigration raids began last Friday on June 13, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard and the Marines against the wishes of city leaders. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s “insistence that perimeters, blockades, and other security functions are permissible makes clear they will continue to engage in these activities,” California lawyers with the state attorney general’s office \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.140.0.pdf#page=19\">wrote to Breyer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers argued that if military forces can accompany U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their raids and arrests, as had been unfolding in Los Angeles, “there would be no logical basis to preclude members of the Armed Forces from accompanying other law enforcement agents when performing their duties,” \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf#page=20\">the California lawyers wrote\u003c/a>. Military personnel could accompany federal food safety inspectors, medical fraud investigators or accompany federal voting rights officials to “monitor” election polling places, they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What are California’s examples of the military acting as police?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing the state pointed to several instances in which they allege troops went too far and violated the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the use of the military in civilian settings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>California attorneys deposed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field director \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/127-2.pdf#page=16\">who said\u003c/a> National Guard soldiers accompanied immigration officers on as many as 75% of their missions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Troops accompanied a federal agency during a “\u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf#page=6\">law enforcement operation\u003c/a>” at a cannabis facility in Riverside County and formed a security perimeter that prevented people from leaving the site. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Troops allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf#page=7\">formed security perimeters\u003c/a> on July 7 during a demonstration at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles during raids at cannabis farms in Ventura County.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf#page=7\">two incidents\u003c/a>, military service members detained civilians, the California lawyers wrote. One took place in Carpinteria in Santa Barbara County, where National Guard troops allegedly “apprehended” a protester. In the other, a Marine on June 13 allegedly detained someone at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California attorneys collected testimony from the deputy chief of staff of the military unit in Los Angeles who said the National Guard \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.150.0.pdf#page=4\">is subject\u003c/a> to Posse Comitatus and cannot engage in civilian law enforcement. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The attorneys point to military-issued guidance that “directly providing ‘security functions’ for civilian law enforcement agents is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act,” \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf#page=12\">per their summary\u003c/a>. But, the lawyers note, the military unit in L.A. was ordered to “actively provide security during civil law enforcement operations on a near-continuous basis since the deployment began,” the California lawyers wrote. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How does the federal government respond?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf\">The federal government says\u003c/a> California is wrong for four reasons. Some are disputes over technical court procedure and some disputing the facts California’s legal team is presenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Federal lawyers wrote that Posse Comitatus is \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf#page=7\">a criminal statute\u003c/a>, which cannot be used in a civil case, and the lawsuit is civil, not criminal. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>They dispute that the president or the Department of Defense exceeded its authority in ordering the troops to assist federal immigration law enforcement in apprehensions. “As Supreme Court precedent makes clear, the (Posse Comitatus Act) does not prohibit the President from using troops to protect federal personnel and property,” the \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf#page=8\">Trump administration lawyers wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The federal lawyers also say California has \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf#page=17\">no standing to sue\u003c/a>. (California’s attorneys \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.140.0.pdf#page=12\">dispute this\u003c/a>.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fourth, the lawyers say that the National Guard can act as a police force because the law Trump cited to federalize them \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf#page=8\">permits the National Guard\u003c/a> to “execute the laws of the United States” if the president is unable to do that with “regular forces,” which at minimum \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf#page=19\">means enforcing\u003c/a> “federal immigration laws as well as laws forbidding interference with federal functions or assaults on federal officers and property,” the federal lawyers wrote.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The lawyers also dispute that the military’s role counts as law enforcement. California’s lawyers say the Marines “briefly detained” a protester. But the \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.84.0.pdf#page=29\">federal lawyers wrote\u003c/a> that action “was in protection of federal property (the individual had attempted to enter a restricted area on federal property multiple times) and the Marines turned that individual over to the LAPD minutes later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And providing a perimeter for federal immigration law enforcement also doesn’t violate Posse Comitatus, because, as a previous federal court found, “Posse Comitatus Act does not apply to federal troops playing ‘a passive role in civilian enforcement activities,’” \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.84.0.pdf#page=29\">the federal lawyers wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is likely to happen after this trial?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How Breyer will rule is impossible to forecast. He sided with California already only to have a three-judge panel in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals block his orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor is the military the main force acting on the Trump administration’s interpretation of immigration law. The Department of Homeland Security has that role through its various agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those agencies were \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/la-immigration-restraining-order/\">temporarily blocked\u003c/a> by a lower district court judge from making apprehensions in Southern California based on race, ethnicity, language, and location or employment. The move sought to block “roving” immigration stops in California’s most populous region. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that block. Last week the Trump administration\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/08/trump-appeals-ban-on-la-immigration-raids/\"> appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States\u003c/a> to lift the lower court’s restraining order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/08/newsom-vs-trump-national-guard/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relatedly, the Department of Defense issued a \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.140.2.pdf\">new activation order\u003c/a> to deploy troops in California for another 90 days on Aug. 5, California lawyers told the court in a filing. That came two weeks after the Marines \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pentagon-withdraws-700-marines-from-los-angeles\">deployed to Los Angeles left\u003c/a> and a week after the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/31/nearly-all-national-guard-soldiers-in-los-angeles-are-demobilizing-governor-newsom-demands-those-remaining-be-released/\">demobilized most of the National Guard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s lawyers assert evidence in their briefs, often redacted \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.114.0_1.pdf\">because of a court order\u003c/a>, that the military took part in law enforcement in violation of 19th Century law called the Posse Comitatus Act. They want a judge to order the Trump administration to permanently \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/ahead-trial-attorney-general-bonta-lays-out-case-against-trump-administration%E2%80%99s\">halt those actions\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046313\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer granted an emergency temporary restraining order to stop President Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard, on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the California State Supreme Court building in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump Department of Justice counters that those engagements don’t count as law enforcement, but rather fall under the category of supporting immigration law enforcement agents or protecting federal buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has not invoked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/unpacking-trumps-order-authorizing-domestic-deployment-military\">Insurrection Act\u003c/a>, a law that would allow the military to engage in \u003ca href=\"https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/unpacking-the-protective-power\">law enforcement activity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How did we get here?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This trial is an extension of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/los-angeles-marines-newsom-lawsuit/\">June lawsuit\u003c/a> that Newsom filed against Trump after the president took over California’s National Guard. Trump did that in response to protests that broke out in the Los Angeles area after immigration law enforcement agents began workforce raids \u003ca href=\"http://google.com/search?q=sergio+olmos+calmatters+mexico+bus+stop&rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS1146US1146&oq=sergio+olmos+calmatters+mexico+bus+stop&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRiPAtIBCTE5MDY1ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\">to apprehend individuals\u003c/a> allegedly in the U.S. without proper authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, about 4,000 troops from the California National Guard and 700 U.S. Marines were deployed to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That month marked a new nadir in the relations between Newsom and Trump. The governor likened the president to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/10/governor-newsoms-address-to-california-democracy-at-a-crossroads/\">failed dictators.\u003c/a> Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeJCrSyEMyk\">endorsed the idea of arresting Newsom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Charles Breyer, the judge in Monday’s case and oversaw the June hearings, initially sided with Newsom, ordering that Trump return the National Guard to the governor. A three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/9th-circuit-los-angeles-national-guard/\">blocked that move\u003c/a>. They found that the Trump administration legitimately called up troops to protect federal buildings and federal employees \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.116.0.pdf#page=3\">from some protesters\u003c/a> who tossed chunks of concrete and used trash dumpsters as battering rams. California lawyers said the troops’ presence inflamed the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The June protests lasted about a week and were largely isolated to a handful of city blocks in the downtown area; Los Angeles is roughly 500 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer then allowed California’s lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.101.0_1.pdf\">to depose Trump officials\u003c/a> and gather documents to argue California’s case that the Trump administration was violating the law barring the military from acting as a police force. Trump’s Department of Justice lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.137.0_1.pdf\">tried to cancel the trial but failed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is California’s latest allegation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That Los Angeles residents were “\u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf\">subjected to a form of military occupation\u003c/a>” as federal troops worked alongside federal immigration agents, “often indistinguishable from each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.140.0.pdf\">say that\u003c/a> “never before, in the history of the Nation, has the federal government utilized the military for domestic law enforcement in this manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-scaled-e1752857672682.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-scaled-e1752857672682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048135\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents guard outside of a federal building and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in downtown Los Angeles as demonstrations continue after a series of immigration raids began last Friday on June 13, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard and the Marines against the wishes of city leaders. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s “insistence that perimeters, blockades, and other security functions are permissible makes clear they will continue to engage in these activities,” California lawyers with the state attorney general’s office \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.140.0.pdf#page=19\">wrote to Breyer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers argued that if military forces can accompany U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their raids and arrests, as had been unfolding in Los Angeles, “there would be no logical basis to preclude members of the Armed Forces from accompanying other law enforcement agents when performing their duties,” \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf#page=20\">the California lawyers wrote\u003c/a>. Military personnel could accompany federal food safety inspectors, medical fraud investigators or accompany federal voting rights officials to “monitor” election polling places, they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What are California’s examples of the military acting as police?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing the state pointed to several instances in which they allege troops went too far and violated the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the use of the military in civilian settings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>California attorneys deposed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field director \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/127-2.pdf#page=16\">who said\u003c/a> National Guard soldiers accompanied immigration officers on as many as 75% of their missions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Troops accompanied a federal agency during a “\u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf#page=6\">law enforcement operation\u003c/a>” at a cannabis facility in Riverside County and formed a security perimeter that prevented people from leaving the site. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Troops allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf#page=7\">formed security perimeters\u003c/a> on July 7 during a demonstration at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles during raids at cannabis farms in Ventura County.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf#page=7\">two incidents\u003c/a>, military service members detained civilians, the California lawyers wrote. One took place in Carpinteria in Santa Barbara County, where National Guard troops allegedly “apprehended” a protester. In the other, a Marine on June 13 allegedly detained someone at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California attorneys collected testimony from the deputy chief of staff of the military unit in Los Angeles who said the National Guard \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.150.0.pdf#page=4\">is subject\u003c/a> to Posse Comitatus and cannot engage in civilian law enforcement. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The attorneys point to military-issued guidance that “directly providing ‘security functions’ for civilian law enforcement agents is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act,” \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.127.0.pdf#page=12\">per their summary\u003c/a>. But, the lawyers note, the military unit in L.A. was ordered to “actively provide security during civil law enforcement operations on a near-continuous basis since the deployment began,” the California lawyers wrote. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How does the federal government respond?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf\">The federal government says\u003c/a> California is wrong for four reasons. Some are disputes over technical court procedure and some disputing the facts California’s legal team is presenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Federal lawyers wrote that Posse Comitatus is \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf#page=7\">a criminal statute\u003c/a>, which cannot be used in a civil case, and the lawsuit is civil, not criminal. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>They dispute that the president or the Department of Defense exceeded its authority in ordering the troops to assist federal immigration law enforcement in apprehensions. “As Supreme Court precedent makes clear, the (Posse Comitatus Act) does not prohibit the President from using troops to protect federal personnel and property,” the \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf#page=8\">Trump administration lawyers wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The federal lawyers also say California has \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf#page=17\">no standing to sue\u003c/a>. (California’s attorneys \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.140.0.pdf#page=12\">dispute this\u003c/a>.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fourth, the lawyers say that the National Guard can act as a police force because the law Trump cited to federalize them \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf#page=8\">permits the National Guard\u003c/a> to “execute the laws of the United States” if the president is unable to do that with “regular forces,” which at minimum \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.136.0.pdf#page=19\">means enforcing\u003c/a> “federal immigration laws as well as laws forbidding interference with federal functions or assaults on federal officers and property,” the federal lawyers wrote.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The lawyers also dispute that the military’s role counts as law enforcement. California’s lawyers say the Marines “briefly detained” a protester. But the \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.84.0.pdf#page=29\">federal lawyers wrote\u003c/a> that action “was in protection of federal property (the individual had attempted to enter a restricted area on federal property multiple times) and the Marines turned that individual over to the LAPD minutes later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And providing a perimeter for federal immigration law enforcement also doesn’t violate Posse Comitatus, because, as a previous federal court found, “Posse Comitatus Act does not apply to federal troops playing ‘a passive role in civilian enforcement activities,’” \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.84.0.pdf#page=29\">the federal lawyers wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is likely to happen after this trial?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How Breyer will rule is impossible to forecast. He sided with California already only to have a three-judge panel in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals block his orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor is the military the main force acting on the Trump administration’s interpretation of immigration law. The Department of Homeland Security has that role through its various agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those agencies were \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/la-immigration-restraining-order/\">temporarily blocked\u003c/a> by a lower district court judge from making apprehensions in Southern California based on race, ethnicity, language, and location or employment. The move sought to block “roving” immigration stops in California’s most populous region. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that block. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Aug. 6, 2012, a fire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/73746/new-photos-chevron-refinery-fire-and-its-aftermath\">broke out\u003c/a> at the Chevron refinery in Richmond. Liquid hydrocarbon spewed from a leaky pipe in the crude unit and ignited, sending smoke plumes into the air that could be seen across the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby residents struggled to breathe and reported headaches, chest pains and itchy eyes. More than 15,000 people sought medical help. For Luna Angulo, then in middle school, it was an awakening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone who is 12 and you see the sky suddenly turn black, you’re like — the city is on fire,” Angulo, now 25, said. “What is this about? What is going on?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron later \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2017/2017-62.pdf\">agreed\u003c/a> to upgrade the refinery, which was first established in 1902, and pay more than $1 million in fines. The company also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\">settled a lawsuit\u003c/a> with the city of Richmond for $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angulo, the flames revealed the human cost of living in the shadow of California’s third-largest refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 2012 fire in particular was a big catalyzing moment for me in terms of how I saw the role of Chevron in Richmond,” Angulo said. “But I think also for a lot of the youth from Richmond that I organized with, it was a big ‘Oh s—’ moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luna Angulo looks at the Chevron Refinery from the Wildcat Marsh Staging Area in Richmond on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2012 Chevron fire was a key flashpoint in the yearslong effort to empower frontline communities like Richmond to fight for cleaner air. That work culminated in the Path to Clean Air — a hyperlocal pollution-reduction roadmap that places decision-making in the hands of residents, not regulators. With such lofty goals, the Path to Clean Air could be a community-powered blueprint that dramatically reshapes Richmond’s local economy and the health of its residents. Or it could collect dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next decade, Angulo became deeply involved in local activism, often pressing state and regional agencies to adopt tougher regulations on Chevron. Then, in 2021, she heard about an opportunity to claim a seat at the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years earlier, Gov. Jerry Brown had signed Assembly Bill 617, aimed at improving air quality in California’s most polluted communities. Crucially, the law created local steering committees — made up of residents, not experts — with the power to craft plans to measure and reduce air pollution.[aside postID=news_12040941 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250509-BeniciaRefinery-30-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“It’s a sick concept — you’re putting decision-making power in the hands of community members in this very direct way,” Angulo, 25, said. “And I was like, ‘This is incredible.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many local activists saw AB 617 as a breakthrough for community power-building. But statewide environmental justice organizations viewed it as a half-measure, meant to win support from progressive Democrats for Brown’s true priority: extending California’s landmark environmental program known as cap-and-trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cap-and-trade sets a declining limit on greenhouse gas emissions from industries such as refineries, power plants and factories. But it does not require reductions at specific sites, such as Chevron’s Richmond refinery, and it only regulates climate-warming greenhouse gases, not local air pollutants like particulate matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cap-and-trade is really looking at the broader scale, looking at overall greenhouse gas emissions at the statewide scale,” said Jonathan London, a UC Davis professor who has spent years studying the AB 617 program. “So local communities that are facing these significant air quality burdens can sometimes not be on the map and not actually show up as a key topic of concern when things are at that really broad level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Cristina Garcia hoped to spotlight local air pollution when she brought Brown \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AsmGarcia/status/867123969140285441\">on a 2017 tour\u003c/a> of her hometown of Bell Gardens. She walked with the governor along freeway overpasses above backlogged trucks spewing exhaust and invited him to speak with local environmental activists. After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11473247/state-democrats-have-new-leverage-in-effort-to-curb-greenhouse-gases\">months of negotiations\u003c/a>, Brown and legislative leaders included AB 617, written by Garcia, in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11573588/california-lawmakers-approve-plan-to-extend-cap-and-trade-system\">deal to renew\u003c/a> cap-and-trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for a petroleum pipeline in Richmond on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eight years later, leaders like Angulo have used AB 617 to create local plans for reducing pollution. But those plans lack real enforcement power, making it difficult to gauge how much AB 617 has actually reduced pollution in the frontline communities it was designed to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators are weighing another renewal of cap-and-trade, which could change the way AB 617 is funded. Environmental justice advocates view the negotiations as a chance to strengthen the program and deliver on the promise of clean air in California’s most polluted neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten communities were selected in 2018 for the program’s rollout by the California Air Resources Board. These were predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods — such as West Oakland, Carson and East Los Angeles — where decades of discriminatory planning had placed backyards near industrial facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal was for local steering committees to work with regional air districts to monitor pollution and draft community emission reduction plans, or CERPs.[aside postID=news_12000170 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022_qed-1020x680.jpg']The rollout was rocky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In West Oakland, established environmental justice advocates were ready to use new state funding and authority to push for emissions cuts from trucks at the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Richmond, North Richmond and San Pablo, London found the Bay Area Air District still largely controlled the steering committee process. Local environmental justice groups did not participate because of their opposition to AB 617, and residents who did join struggled with procedural hurdles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to make ‘motions,’ get ‘seconds,’ make a ‘friendly amendment,’” Angulo remembered. “We operate under consensus very much in these community spaces — no one knows how to make a motion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2020 survey, London asked members of the 10 steering committees if they believed the process benefited their communities. Richmond’s steering committee members gave themselves the lowest score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gradually, through turnover and years of monthly meetings, the steering committee found its footing. Data from AB 617’s expanded air monitoring helped identify local pollution hotspots — from highways to rail yards to auto body shops. Angulo pushed through a change to the committee rules to give community members more control over meetings and agendas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1586px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1586\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB.png 1586w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-800x547.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-1020x697.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-1536x1050.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1586px) 100vw, 1586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Aug. 6, 2012, fire at the Chevron Oil Refinery in Richmond, California, began near the rupture of this 8-inch pipe, shown in this photo included in the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s final investigative report. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of U.S. Chemical Safety Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Issues that we found early on … many of those really have been addressed,” London said. “Fixes have been put in to improve community engagement, to ensure that community priorities are well reflected in the eventual emission reduction plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s CERP, called The Path to Clean Air, was finalized in November, years behind schedule. It calls for the Bay Area Air District to adopt new rules limiting refinery emissions, invest fines collected from polluters back into Richmond and neighboring San Pablo, and move toward a “just transition” away from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large focus, to no surprise, is Chevron, which the roadmap cited as “by far the largest single generator of emissions in the Path to Clean Air community for many air pollutants,” including PM 2.5 — microscopic particles linked to asthma and emphysema.[aside postID=news_12040286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-26_qed-1020x680.jpg']“The [Path to Clean Air] community is a frontline community that has long been subject to historical and systematic racist policies and impacted by the largest refinery in Northern California, the Chevron Richmond Refinery,” the report reads. “In order to reach our climate and equity goals, we must end the refining and combustion of fossil fuels as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an audacious goal for a city whose local economy and tax base have long been tied to Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company participated in the process as a non-voting member of the steering committee. It declined an interview request but said in a statement that it “values the program described in AB 617 as an important initiative to address local air quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the AB 617 framework is important to the program’s success, including inclusive engagement, data-driven assessments, and clear objectives to cost-effectively reduce local emissions,” Chevron spokesperson Caitlin Powell said. “For the past few decades, California’s energy policies have discouraged investment, reduced fuel reliability, and ultimately hurt consumers through higher prices and broader economic strain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is crucial that policies aimed at reducing emissions do not unduly burden California families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a 2024 email to the Bay Area Air District, Chevron manager Kris Battleson criticized the CERP’s call for a just transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-21-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-21-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-21-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-21-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chevron Richmond Refinery, seen from the Point Richmond neighborhood in Richmond on June 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The concept of a ‘just transition’ does not relate to emission reductions and is more akin to providing a safety net for workers and residents impacted by the State’s goals of eliminating an entire industry,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BK White, a former Chevron refinery operator and current policy director for Richmond’s mayor, said the plan is not a “shot” at Chevron, but responsible planning for a future in which demand for gasoline refined in California is projected to decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any city that is too dependent on one industry — we’ve seen it with coal, with the automobile industry in the Midwest — you have to transition your tax base to where you’re more diversified,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area air regulators have said the local CERPS have driven the rules they make to limit pollution. But a core flaw of AB 617 is that the community plans carry no legal weight, said Dan Ress, attorney at the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They put together these really thoughtful and nuanced plans,” Ress said. “And then they’re told, ‘Well, that’s really a nice document you put together, gold star.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051551\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20140709_184808_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20140709_184808_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20140709_184808_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20140709_184808_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 300 people attended the Richmond Planning Commission’s meeting on July 9, 2014, to weigh in on the environmental impact of a proposed upgrade to the Chevron refinery in the city. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Ress praised the work of residents on the 617 steering committees, he warned that the lack of enforcement could erode trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that causes some real problems where you’re saying, ‘Community members, tell us what you want. OK, cool, we’re going to ignore that now,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Shafter, a Central Valley AB 617 community, members demanded earlier notice before pesticides were sprayed on local fields. With an advanced heads-up, parents could keep their children inside on a day when chemicals were being sprayed in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern County agricultural commissioner refused, even though the data was already available. The steering committee turned to state regulators, and after a five-year campaign, California launched a statewide pesticide notification program earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we see both the main benefit of 617 in that organizing and power building,” Ress said. “And the main drawback in its lack of weight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-07-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-07-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-07-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-07-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the Chevron Richmond Refinery, seen from the Point Richmond neighborhood in Richmond on June 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates want lawmakers to expand the program beyond the current 19 communities, add environmental justice-aligned regulators to local air boards and give the local plans real enforcement power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The core concern is that [AB 617] pits disadvantaged communities against each other in competing to get into the program,” Ress said. “Then once they’re in the program, it takes a ton of resources and focused effort with relatively small payback for that effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program’s future may hinge on the upcoming cap-and-trade negotiations, which are expected to intensify when the Legislature returns from recess on Aug. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key point of debate is how to allocate the revenue generated from the sale of emissions credits purchased. Since 2017, the Legislature has dedicated $1.4 billion in support of AB 617. The funds have paid for EV charging stations, bike paths, urban greening programs and staff support for the local steering committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has touted the AB 617 projects as a reason to renew cap-and-trade, which he is proposing to rename Cap-and-Invest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re cutting harmful pollution across California with a special focus on communities that have some of the dirtiest air in our state,” Newsom said in a statement. “Thanks to Cap-and-Invest, we’ve invested hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that are proven to clean the air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom and legislative leaders also want to use cap-and-trade funds for other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040286/how-california-cap-and-trade-works-and-how-newsom-wants-to-change-it\">priorities\u003c/a>, such as funding high-speed rail, firefighting and lowering electricity bills. A Chevron executive \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2025/08/01/chevrons-andy-walz-isnt-satisfied-00490144\">told \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that cap-and-trade should be paused for up to 20 years to avoid harming refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of AB 617 argue that cutting the funding would break the promise that communities breathing the dirtiest air would not be left behind on the state’s path to global climate leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program was made with the intention of using this polluter money to help reduce the impact of these industrial facilities,” said Angulo. “If we’re not using that money to fund programs like these — that are putting decision-making power directly into the hands of community members —what are we doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron later \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2017/2017-62.pdf\">agreed\u003c/a> to upgrade the refinery, which was first established in 1902, and pay more than $1 million in fines. The company also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\">settled a lawsuit\u003c/a> with the city of Richmond for $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angulo, the flames revealed the human cost of living in the shadow of California’s third-largest refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 2012 fire in particular was a big catalyzing moment for me in terms of how I saw the role of Chevron in Richmond,” Angulo said. “But I think also for a lot of the youth from Richmond that I organized with, it was a big ‘Oh s—’ moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luna Angulo looks at the Chevron Refinery from the Wildcat Marsh Staging Area in Richmond on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2012 Chevron fire was a key flashpoint in the yearslong effort to empower frontline communities like Richmond to fight for cleaner air. That work culminated in the Path to Clean Air — a hyperlocal pollution-reduction roadmap that places decision-making in the hands of residents, not regulators. With such lofty goals, the Path to Clean Air could be a community-powered blueprint that dramatically reshapes Richmond’s local economy and the health of its residents. Or it could collect dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next decade, Angulo became deeply involved in local activism, often pressing state and regional agencies to adopt tougher regulations on Chevron. Then, in 2021, she heard about an opportunity to claim a seat at the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years earlier, Gov. Jerry Brown had signed Assembly Bill 617, aimed at improving air quality in California’s most polluted communities. Crucially, the law created local steering committees — made up of residents, not experts — with the power to craft plans to measure and reduce air pollution.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The rollout was rocky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In West Oakland, established environmental justice advocates were ready to use new state funding and authority to push for emissions cuts from trucks at the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Richmond, North Richmond and San Pablo, London found the Bay Area Air District still largely controlled the steering committee process. Local environmental justice groups did not participate because of their opposition to AB 617, and residents who did join struggled with procedural hurdles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to make ‘motions,’ get ‘seconds,’ make a ‘friendly amendment,’” Angulo remembered. “We operate under consensus very much in these community spaces — no one knows how to make a motion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2020 survey, London asked members of the 10 steering committees if they believed the process benefited their communities. Richmond’s steering committee members gave themselves the lowest score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gradually, through turnover and years of monthly meetings, the steering committee found its footing. Data from AB 617’s expanded air monitoring helped identify local pollution hotspots — from highways to rail yards to auto body shops. Angulo pushed through a change to the committee rules to give community members more control over meetings and agendas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1586px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1586\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB.png 1586w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-800x547.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-1020x697.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-1536x1050.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1586px) 100vw, 1586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Aug. 6, 2012, fire at the Chevron Oil Refinery in Richmond, California, began near the rupture of this 8-inch pipe, shown in this photo included in the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s final investigative report. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of U.S. Chemical Safety Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Issues that we found early on … many of those really have been addressed,” London said. “Fixes have been put in to improve community engagement, to ensure that community priorities are well reflected in the eventual emission reduction plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s CERP, called The Path to Clean Air, was finalized in November, years behind schedule. It calls for the Bay Area Air District to adopt new rules limiting refinery emissions, invest fines collected from polluters back into Richmond and neighboring San Pablo, and move toward a “just transition” away from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large focus, to no surprise, is Chevron, which the roadmap cited as “by far the largest single generator of emissions in the Path to Clean Air community for many air pollutants,” including PM 2.5 — microscopic particles linked to asthma and emphysema.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The [Path to Clean Air] community is a frontline community that has long been subject to historical and systematic racist policies and impacted by the largest refinery in Northern California, the Chevron Richmond Refinery,” the report reads. “In order to reach our climate and equity goals, we must end the refining and combustion of fossil fuels as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an audacious goal for a city whose local economy and tax base have long been tied to Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company participated in the process as a non-voting member of the steering committee. It declined an interview request but said in a statement that it “values the program described in AB 617 as an important initiative to address local air quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the AB 617 framework is important to the program’s success, including inclusive engagement, data-driven assessments, and clear objectives to cost-effectively reduce local emissions,” Chevron spokesperson Caitlin Powell said. “For the past few decades, California’s energy policies have discouraged investment, reduced fuel reliability, and ultimately hurt consumers through higher prices and broader economic strain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is crucial that policies aimed at reducing emissions do not unduly burden California families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a 2024 email to the Bay Area Air District, Chevron manager Kris Battleson criticized the CERP’s call for a just transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-21-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-21-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-21-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-21-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chevron Richmond Refinery, seen from the Point Richmond neighborhood in Richmond on June 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The concept of a ‘just transition’ does not relate to emission reductions and is more akin to providing a safety net for workers and residents impacted by the State’s goals of eliminating an entire industry,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BK White, a former Chevron refinery operator and current policy director for Richmond’s mayor, said the plan is not a “shot” at Chevron, but responsible planning for a future in which demand for gasoline refined in California is projected to decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any city that is too dependent on one industry — we’ve seen it with coal, with the automobile industry in the Midwest — you have to transition your tax base to where you’re more diversified,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area air regulators have said the local CERPS have driven the rules they make to limit pollution. But a core flaw of AB 617 is that the community plans carry no legal weight, said Dan Ress, attorney at the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They put together these really thoughtful and nuanced plans,” Ress said. “And then they’re told, ‘Well, that’s really a nice document you put together, gold star.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051551\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20140709_184808_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20140709_184808_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20140709_184808_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20140709_184808_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 300 people attended the Richmond Planning Commission’s meeting on July 9, 2014, to weigh in on the environmental impact of a proposed upgrade to the Chevron refinery in the city. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Ress praised the work of residents on the 617 steering committees, he warned that the lack of enforcement could erode trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that causes some real problems where you’re saying, ‘Community members, tell us what you want. OK, cool, we’re going to ignore that now,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Shafter, a Central Valley AB 617 community, members demanded earlier notice before pesticides were sprayed on local fields. With an advanced heads-up, parents could keep their children inside on a day when chemicals were being sprayed in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern County agricultural commissioner refused, even though the data was already available. The steering committee turned to state regulators, and after a five-year campaign, California launched a statewide pesticide notification program earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we see both the main benefit of 617 in that organizing and power building,” Ress said. “And the main drawback in its lack of weight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-07-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-07-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-07-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250603-PollutersPay-07-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the Chevron Richmond Refinery, seen from the Point Richmond neighborhood in Richmond on June 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates want lawmakers to expand the program beyond the current 19 communities, add environmental justice-aligned regulators to local air boards and give the local plans real enforcement power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The core concern is that [AB 617] pits disadvantaged communities against each other in competing to get into the program,” Ress said. “Then once they’re in the program, it takes a ton of resources and focused effort with relatively small payback for that effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program’s future may hinge on the upcoming cap-and-trade negotiations, which are expected to intensify when the Legislature returns from recess on Aug. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key point of debate is how to allocate the revenue generated from the sale of emissions credits purchased. Since 2017, the Legislature has dedicated $1.4 billion in support of AB 617. The funds have paid for EV charging stations, bike paths, urban greening programs and staff support for the local steering committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has touted the AB 617 projects as a reason to renew cap-and-trade, which he is proposing to rename Cap-and-Invest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve been waiting for\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934347/will-casual-carpool-ever-come-back\"> the return of the casual carpool\u003c/a>, or if you’ve been dying to try it out, this is your moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a campaign to bring back the Bay Area tradition — a completely organic system of riding with strangers to get across the bridge faster and for cheap — after a five-year hiatus caused by the pandemic is staging a relaunch at a single location in Oakland’s Grand Lake neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort’s main organizer said she hopes — and believes — it will be the start of a renaissance for the communal commute mode in which San Francisco-bound drivers once picked up complete strangers from East Bay street corners to take advantage of carpool lanes to and around the Bay Bridge toll plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille Bermudez, a merchandiser for a San Francisco apparel company, started casual carpooling as a teenager, riding across the bay to her San Francisco high school with her father, Carlos. She said her fond memories of that experience, and the desire to have more commute options from her home in Alameda, drove her to try to resurrect carpooling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier efforts\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934347/will-casual-carpool-ever-come-back\"> to attract drivers and riders\u003c/a> back to casual carpooling came up short. But Bermudez said a number of factors are coming together to make the time ripe for a revival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive along the 580 freeway in Oakland on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Part of what’s changing now is that there are a lot more return-to-office mandates,” she said in an interview. “So just as we were told 5 years ago to stay home, we’re also now being told, ‘Time to start coming back into the office.’ That’s part of why we think now is the perfect time to bring casual carpool back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also points to the fact that solo commuters driving electric cars will lose their privileged access to carpool lanes next month. She said she thinks that rising bridge tolls are making people more open to a famously low-cost commute option that, on its best days, is faster than public transit across the bay.[aside postID=news_12050256 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-06_qed.jpg']Carpool drivers pay half of the current Bay Bridge toll of $4. Depending on the driver, riders may kick in a dollar for their ride and often pay nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So time savings, flexibility, cost savings — all reasons for casual carpool and its return,” Bermudez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s encouraged by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1m7s1il/casual_carpool_update_survey_period_is_done_and\">results\u003c/a> of a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6r9mCOAtzZr0HAbq6cIfjv0k7QQ70VSrRclCkcxJFis4SAg/viewform\">survey\u003c/a> she posted on Reddit earlier this summer that indicated wide interest in trying casual carpooling, including among those who have never taken a ride-with-a-stranger trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feedback Bermudez got from the survey led her to set Aug. 12 as the relaunch date, initially for two locations in Oakland and one in Berkeley. She’s since narrowed the focus for Casual Carpool 2.0 to a single site — the parking lot at Lake Park and Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland’s Grand Lake neighborhood. She said her survey showed that location had the highest number of potential drivers and riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bermudez said she’ll consider the effort successful if that first pickup point is “up and running, and running beautifully — where both driver and passenger can find somebody to do their ad hoc carpool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the longer term, she envisions a community-driven effort to resurrect more of the area’s \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/carpool/casual\">20-plus former carpool spots\u003c/a> and for the system to become self-sustaining, just like in pre-pandemic days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille Bermudez, a merchandiser for a San Francisco apparel company, started casual carpooling as a teenager, riding across the bay to her San Francisco high school with her father, Carlos. She said her fond memories of that experience, and the desire to have more commute options from her home in Alameda, drove her to try to resurrect carpooling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier efforts\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934347/will-casual-carpool-ever-come-back\"> to attract drivers and riders\u003c/a> back to casual carpooling came up short. But Bermudez said a number of factors are coming together to make the time ripe for a revival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive along the 580 freeway in Oakland on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Part of what’s changing now is that there are a lot more return-to-office mandates,” she said in an interview. “So just as we were told 5 years ago to stay home, we’re also now being told, ‘Time to start coming back into the office.’ That’s part of why we think now is the perfect time to bring casual carpool back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also points to the fact that solo commuters driving electric cars will lose their privileged access to carpool lanes next month. She said she thinks that rising bridge tolls are making people more open to a famously low-cost commute option that, on its best days, is faster than public transit across the bay.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Carpool drivers pay half of the current Bay Bridge toll of $4. Depending on the driver, riders may kick in a dollar for their ride and often pay nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So time savings, flexibility, cost savings — all reasons for casual carpool and its return,” Bermudez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s encouraged by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1m7s1il/casual_carpool_update_survey_period_is_done_and\">results\u003c/a> of a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6r9mCOAtzZr0HAbq6cIfjv0k7QQ70VSrRclCkcxJFis4SAg/viewform\">survey\u003c/a> she posted on Reddit earlier this summer that indicated wide interest in trying casual carpooling, including among those who have never taken a ride-with-a-stranger trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feedback Bermudez got from the survey led her to set Aug. 12 as the relaunch date, initially for two locations in Oakland and one in Berkeley. She’s since narrowed the focus for Casual Carpool 2.0 to a single site — the parking lot at Lake Park and Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland’s Grand Lake neighborhood. She said her survey showed that location had the highest number of potential drivers and riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bermudez said she’ll consider the effort successful if that first pickup point is “up and running, and running beautifully — where both driver and passenger can find somebody to do their ad hoc carpool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the longer term, she envisions a community-driven effort to resurrect more of the area’s \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/carpool/casual\">20-plus former carpool spots\u003c/a> and for the system to become self-sustaining, just like in pre-pandemic days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International college students are learning that speech isn’t as free as they thought in the United States. After President Donald Trump began his second term, hundreds of international students lost their student status as part of an executive order cracking down on immigration and alleged antisemitism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While lawsuits resulted in many of those students having their status reinstated since April, the uncertainty of it happening again has created fear among international students, particularly within the University of California system, where international students make up 13.6% of student enrollment as of Fall 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some international students told CalMatters they have changed their involvement in campus activities, from the routes they take on campus to avoid free speech areas, to the topics they include in their research projects, to scrubbing their social media posts and limiting their political activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fear began spreading in late January, when the White House \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-takes-forceful-and-unprecedented-steps-to-combat-anti-semitism/\">released a fact sheet\u003c/a> about Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/03/2025-02230/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism\">Executive Order 14188\u003c/a>, “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism,” stating, “resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you.” Additionally, it mentioned cancelling visas of “Hamas sympathizers” on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, there have been a few high-profile arrests of international students, including Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University, a legal permanent resident who was involved in leading pro-Palestinian protests, and Rümeysa Öztürk at Tufts University, a Turkish national who co-wrote an op-ed asking her university to divest. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5441691/mahmoud-khalil-interview\">Khalil\u003c/a> has since been released on bail and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5393055/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-ordered-freed-from-immigration-detention\">Öztürk\u003c/a> was released by order of a federal judge. Still, these detentions have triggered concerns among international students about how their actions could be used against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12051521 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/05/chinese-student-visas-california-trump/\">announced\u003c/a> the U.S. would start “aggressively” revoking Chinese student visas, more specifically, those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in fields that are considered “critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials haven’t released any information about how many international students had their status revoked, or which campuses they attend. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/04/07/where-students-have-had-their-visas-revoked\">Inside Higher Ed\u003c/a> compiled news reports of more than 1,800 students nationwide, including over 200 in California, whose status were revoked in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters reached out to all 10 UC campuses inquiring about the number of international students who have had their statuses reinstated, but only two responded. As of April 28, UC San Diego’s 35 terminated student visas had been reactivated, and one student was deported. At UC Santa Barbara, 11 of the 12 visas had been reinstated, though the “situation remains fluid,” said Media Relations Manager Kiki Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>International students are chilling their speech\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>None of the international students interviewed for this story wanted their names or areas of study published due to fears of being identified and having their status revoked for speaking publicly.[aside postID=forum_2010101909645 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/04/GettyImages-2205113389-1-1020x574.jpg']At UC Berkeley, a sophomore told CalMatters that she was involved in campus activism for about a year and a half until about March, when she saw international students losing their visas and heard rumors of immigration enforcement agents on campus. Her thoughts on protesting have changed drastically. “Everything I say can be used against me,” she said. She has been coming up with creative ways to be involved while trying to keep herself and other international students safe. For example, she participates in student club meetings, where she feels she can speak more privately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came to the United States because those are things that I wasn’t comfortable doing in my country,” the sophomore said. “I wasn’t comfortable speaking out. It was like a dictatorship, and that’s why I came to America, which is, like, where the freedom is supposed to be. And then I got met with this. It’s really, really disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at UC Berkeley, a junior from the UK said that last year she felt much freer. During the campus pro-Palestinian protests last year, she wanted to participate but was too busy. Her regret has now turned into relief because if anyone had taken a picture of her near a protest, she believes she would have suffered consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under a Biden administration, I would have felt like I was free to criticize the administration. I was free to take part in protests,” she said. “Because of Trump’s recent decision — especially with the students at Columbia — I feel like I can’t be anywhere near a protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_10-1024x682.jpg\" alt='Protesters hold signs reading \"Healthcare Workers Demand: Stop Bombing Hospitals\" during a demonstration. The signs are white with green and red text and feature an image of a hand with a stethoscope. Some protesters wear keffiyehs and face masks, and the background shows an urban street scene with other participants.'>\u003cfigcaption>Health Care Workers for Gaza participate in the “Free Palestine Camp” demonstration outside of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley on April 23, 2024. \u003cem>Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An international graduate student at another UC — he does not want to name his campus in fear of not passing his dissertation — is working on a research project about the interplay of international politics and media. His research paper includes a section on human rights violations and genocide. Initially, he included coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Faculty advised him to remove the parts about Israel from his final project, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does not have that big an impact on the entire project … but personally I’m just disappointed that I could not talk about it in my final events,” the graduate student said. “I will be presenting this to a set of faculty from my department, and they will be grading that, determining whether I can graduate or not based on the paper. It impacts a little bit on my department, and regarding freedom of speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Balancing the support of Jewish students and due process \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In his executive order, Trump promises to protect the civil rights of Jewish citizens, who have faced harassment, physical threats and assault on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine Jewish student Shir — who requested not to use her full name because she fears discrimination – believes if a student on a visa is “celebrating terror explicitly,” their student status should be evaluated. However, she notes the importance of drawing the line at terror and hate and not overstepping legal boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skipping [due] process doesn’t protect [against] antisemitism, it only creates more hate in the system,” Shir said in an email. “We are all humans first and should be treated as such.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she supports students’ right to protest, Shir wrote “there have been students repeating and glorifying slogans and ideas used by Hamas, a terrorist organization. This is where action is needed. I and many other Jewish students have been confronted at these protests and on campus, told I am a terrorist, that my family in Israel deserves to die, and had protesters outright justify Hamas’ actions to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/110723_UCLA-Israel-Rally_LJ_CM_02-1024x682.jpg\" alt='A person holds a sign reading \"No Hostage Left Behind\" during a rally, with Israeli flags visible in the crowd. The sign is in focus, while people and flags in the foreground are blurred. The event appears to be outdoors, with trees in the background.'>\u003cfigcaption>Hillel, a campus religious group, hosts a rally calling for the release of kidnapped Israelis at UCLA’s Wilson Plaza on Nov. 7, 2023 in Los Angeles. \u003cem>Lauren Justice for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raquel Aldana, a law professor at UC Davis, said the language being used by the Trump administration about antisemitism is extremely broad and could be read to include anything that is anti-Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the areas they’re going to be watching is how these institutions of higher learning respond to allegations of antisemitism, which could end up targeting foreign students,” Aldana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s antisemitism task force is investigating allegations of antisemitic incidents at \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-task-force-combat-antisemitism-announces-visits-10-college-campuses-experienced\">at least 10 college campuses \u003c/a>across the country, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldana said she didn’t understand what problems the investigations are meant to address — adding that it “feels like a political move and not a true concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>International students limited on travel options\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Three UC campuses that responded to CalMatters said they’ve sent communications to international students to use caution if they plan to travel outside the country.[aside postID=news_12036406 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Right before spring break, international students said they received travel warning emails from their international student offices about the risks of leaving the country. At UC Berkeley, the sophomore student said an \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/spring-break-2025-travel-reminders-students\">email from the Berkeley International Office\u003c/a> said the office could not guarantee international students’ ability to return to the U.S. if they left the country, even though the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/study/student-visa.html#:~:text=Continuing%20Students%C2%A0%2D%C2%A0Student%20(F%20and%20M)%20visas%20for%20continuing%20students%20may%20be%20issued%20at%20any%20time%2C%20as%20long%20as%20the%20student%20is%20currently%20enrolled%20at%20a%20SEVP%2Dapproved%20school%20or%20institution%20and%20in%20SEVIS.%20%C2%A0Continuing%20students%20may%20enter%20the%20United%20States%20at%20any%20time%20before%20classes%20start.\">U.S. State Department’s website\u003c/a> states continuing students may enter the country at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to spend our spring break in the U.S., [when] people want to go home,” the UC Berkeley sophomore said. “Not having that option is really disappointing, the fact that no one at the university can advocate for the small percentage of [international] students they have, … is insane to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the summer break, UC Berkeley’s International Office sent another email in May that \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/temporary-delay-for-scheduling-of-visa-appointments-for-f-and-j-applicants-9013441\">urged “caution”\u003c/a> for continuing international students who planned to travel out of the country. On June 4, the White House released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety-threats/\">Presidential Proclamation\u003c/a> announcing restrictions from 19 designated countries to enter the U.S. As a result, UC Davis and UC Irvine recommended that international students from those 19 countries not leave the U.S. because the travel ban may prevent them from re-entering.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Student newspapers face ethical dilemmas \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Öztürk, the Tufts university student arrested after criticizing her university’s response to the Israel-Hamas war, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-release.html\">returned to Massachusetts\u003c/a> after a judge ordered her release from a detention facility in Louisiana in May. Her arrest spurred college publications to take extra precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adalia Luo, editor-in-chief of UC San Diego’s student news organization \u003ca href=\"https://ucsdguardian.org/policies/\">The Guardian\u003c/a>, and Chris Ponce, editor-in-chief of \u003ca href=\"https://theaggie.org/the-california-aggie-code-of-ethics/\">The California Aggie \u003c/a>at UC Davis, said their opinion departments have been making changes. Luo said her organization has removed names from articles by international student writers upon request. Luo added that the priority is protecting the students even though removing a byline weakens a story’s credibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis’ student news staff has discussed a similar issue. Ponce said they’re not simply granting anonymity for anyone who asks. However, they are “now more than ever” open to removing whole articles if it means protecting the status of international students, which they are doing on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/061225_Intl-Students_LB_CM_26-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing glasses and a dark blue shirt smiles while holding up a copy of The California Aggie newspaper. The issue’s illustrated cover reads “Best of 2025” and features drawings of local landmarks and scenery. A dartboard is visible in the background on the wall.\">\u003cfigcaption>Chris Ponce, former editor-in-chief of The California Aggie, holds up a copy of the “Best of Davis 2025” on his last day of school at UC Davis, on June 12, 2025. \u003cem>Louis Bryant III for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One student newspaper is challenging the Trump administration’s policies regarding noncitizen students. The Stanford Daily, represented by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thefire.org/news/lawsuit-fire-challenges-unconstitutional-provisions-rubio-uses-crusade-deport-legal-immigrants\">Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression\u003c/a>, or FIRE, is suing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over immigration laws that allow the revocation of student visas for protected speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2025/08/07/letter-from-the-editors-on-the-dailys-lawsuit-with-fire/\">letter from the editors\u003c/a>, far fewer international students are willing to speak to The Daily, and those who do request anonymity. “Several international members of our own staff even left their positions at The Daily. Many of those who stayed requested to stop writing news articles related to protests or political events on campus and asked that their previous articles be taken off our website,” the letter states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The junior at UC Berkeley said she writes for a campus political magazine. Once the Trump administration started targeting international students, she asked for the articles to be taken down, and the magazine obliged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want my name affiliated with criticisms of the administration, as that would either risk me getting deported or a future visa being rejected. 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At UC Berkeley, the sophomore student said an \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/spring-break-2025-travel-reminders-students\">email from the Berkeley International Office\u003c/a> said the office could not guarantee international students’ ability to return to the U.S. if they left the country, even though the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/study/student-visa.html#:~:text=Continuing%20Students%C2%A0%2D%C2%A0Student%20(F%20and%20M)%20visas%20for%20continuing%20students%20may%20be%20issued%20at%20any%20time%2C%20as%20long%20as%20the%20student%20is%20currently%20enrolled%20at%20a%20SEVP%2Dapproved%20school%20or%20institution%20and%20in%20SEVIS.%20%C2%A0Continuing%20students%20may%20enter%20the%20United%20States%20at%20any%20time%20before%20classes%20start.\">U.S. State Department’s website\u003c/a> states continuing students may enter the country at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to spend our spring break in the U.S., [when] people want to go home,” the UC Berkeley sophomore said. “Not having that option is really disappointing, the fact that no one at the university can advocate for the small percentage of [international] students they have, … is insane to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the summer break, UC Berkeley’s International Office sent another email in May that \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/temporary-delay-for-scheduling-of-visa-appointments-for-f-and-j-applicants-9013441\">urged “caution”\u003c/a> for continuing international students who planned to travel out of the country. 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The Stanford Daily, represented by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thefire.org/news/lawsuit-fire-challenges-unconstitutional-provisions-rubio-uses-crusade-deport-legal-immigrants\">Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression\u003c/a>, or FIRE, is suing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over immigration laws that allow the revocation of student visas for protected speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2025/08/07/letter-from-the-editors-on-the-dailys-lawsuit-with-fire/\">letter from the editors\u003c/a>, far fewer international students are willing to speak to The Daily, and those who do request anonymity. “Several international members of our own staff even left their positions at The Daily. 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The governor’s call for maps favoring Democrats appears to have won over legislators after some expressed early concerns about an accelerated push to set aside California’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\">nonpartisan \u003c/a>district boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference in Sacramento, California Democratic leaders appeared alongside legislators from Texas, who fled their home state to delay a Republican-led redistricting effort aimed at boosting the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said he anticipates a new map favoring Democrats will be released next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not allow Trump’s Republican Party to rig this system and take permanent control of the U.S. House of Representatives,” he said. “We are prepared and we will fight fire with fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are racing to approve the redistricting measure. The Legislature returns from its summer recess on Aug. 18, and the secretary of state’s office has given lawmakers an Aug. 22 deadline to place the redistricting proposal on the Nov. 4 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additional legislation is likely needed to set up a trigger mechanism that would only call the election if Texas or other Republican-led states proceed with gerrymandered maps. Lawmakers will also take a separate vote on the new congressional lines, which Newsom said will allow voters to see the finished map they are being asked to approve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a San José Democrat who chairs the state’s Democratic caucus in Congress, said all of California’s Democratic congressmembers back the push for new district lines. She said a redraw could net Democrats five additional seats, which would match the gains that Republicans in Texas are targeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom first floated the idea of a Democratic gerrymander in July, after President Donald Trump encouraged Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special session to redraw Texas maps.[aside postID=news_12050346 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty.jpg']Some Democrats in California initially were skeptical of scrapping the district lines drawn by the state’s independent redistricting commission. Voters approved a ballot measure in 2008 creating the commission to draw state legislative district lines, and expanded its power to congressional maps with a separate measure in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others worried about the tight timeline to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049973/newsoms-break-the-glass-plan-sets-up-california-midterm-redistricting-fight\">place a measure before voters\u003c/a> and the added burden on local election officials to prepare for a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent weeks, Democrats in the Legislature have rallied to the cause of partisan redistricting, as Trump and Republican leaders push to redraw maps across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a turn-the-other-cheek moment while they continue to send blow after blow to the foundations of democracy,” Assemblymember Isaac Bryan said. “Where I’m from in Los Angeles, when they go low, we squabble up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Republicans have criticized the push for new congressional lines. Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Sacramento Republican seen by many as vulnerable in a redraw, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050983/californias-political-maps-are-drawn-independently-will-newsom-change-that\">introduced\u003c/a> a bill in Congress to block mid-decade redistricting nationwide. In a statement, Central Valley Assemblymember Alexandra Macedo said Newsom is “thumbing his nose at the voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1536x979.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Potential young voters get information at a voter registration desk at California State University, Los Angeles, on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some Democrats in California initially were skeptical of scrapping the district lines drawn by the state’s independent redistricting commission. Voters approved a ballot measure in 2008 creating the commission to draw state legislative district lines, and expanded its power to congressional maps with a separate measure in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others worried about the tight timeline to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049973/newsoms-break-the-glass-plan-sets-up-california-midterm-redistricting-fight\">place a measure before voters\u003c/a> and the added burden on local election officials to prepare for a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent weeks, Democrats in the Legislature have rallied to the cause of partisan redistricting, as Trump and Republican leaders push to redraw maps across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a turn-the-other-cheek moment while they continue to send blow after blow to the foundations of democracy,” Assemblymember Isaac Bryan said. “Where I’m from in Los Angeles, when they go low, we squabble up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Republicans have criticized the push for new congressional lines. Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Sacramento Republican seen by many as vulnerable in a redraw, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050983/californias-political-maps-are-drawn-independently-will-newsom-change-that\">introduced\u003c/a> a bill in Congress to block mid-decade redistricting nationwide. In a statement, Central Valley Assemblymember Alexandra Macedo said Newsom is “thumbing his nose at the voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1536x979.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Potential young voters get information at a voter registration desk at California State University, Los Angeles, on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Governor Newsom’s redistricting scheme sets a dangerous precedent that will collapse the foundational principles of democracy into a zero-sum game of power politics,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Barreto, faculty director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, said even if voters approve California’s new lines, the districts will need to pass legal muster and not dilute the voting power of Black, Latino or Asian voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to need to keep an eye on the Voting Rights Act in ensuring that those new districts enable minority voters, if their population is large enough, to elect their candidates of choice,” Barreto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Barreto acknowledged the necessary political forces were coalescing to bring the issue before California voters in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you are seeing this effort pick up a lot of momentum and a lot of willpower here in California,” he said. “So it looks like it could happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Gavin Newsom threatened to sue the Trump administration on Friday over what he called “extortion,” after the federal government proposed that UCLA pay $1 billion to settle allegations of antisemitism at UCLA and restore more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050654/trump-is-freezing-hundreds-of-grants-to-ucla-over-suspected-antisemitism\">than half a billion dollars in \u003c/a>frozen federal grant funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donald Trump today is trying to silence academic freedom; he’s attacking one of the most important public institutions in the United States of America,” Newsom told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051290/pelosi-says-california-democrats-will-not-unilaterally-disarm-in-redistricting-war\">meeting between California Democratic leaders and Texas Democrats\u003c/a> who fled the state to delay congressional redistricting efforts, Newsom addressed and pushed back against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has threatened us through extortion with a billion-dollar fine unless we do his bidding. So as long as I am governor, I will stand tall and push back against that, and I believe every member of the California legislature feels the same way,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Friday, University of California President James Milliken said, “As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049917 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/072525-Gavin-Newsom-Presser-AP-CM-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/072525-Gavin-Newsom-Presser-AP-CM-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/072525-Gavin-Newsom-Presser-AP-CM-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/072525-Gavin-Newsom-Presser-AP-CM-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for a new way for California to redraw its congressional district maps during a news conference in Sacramento on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In exchange for renewed federal funding, the Department of Justice would also require the UC to pay $172 million into a fund for people impacted by violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/ucla-trump-administration-settlement\">CNN\u003c/a>, which first broke the news. Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milliken said UC officials offered earlier this week to engage in dialogue with the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the agreement would mark the latest and largest settlement between the Trump administration and a university. Since President Donald Trump regained office, his government has targeted universities for alleged discrimination stemming from their perceived inaction against pro-Palestinian student activism. Columbia and Brown, both also facing suspended federal funding, agreed to settlements of over $220 million and $50 million, respectively, in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their settlements, Columbia and Brown also agreed to federal oversight and changes to campus policies or curriculum, raising questions about the integrity of academic freedom on college campuses.[aside postID=news_12050654 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg']Along with the 10-figure payout, the Department of Justice’s proposal would require that UC officials agree to several other conditions, including a senior administrator who will oversee compliance with anti-discrimination laws and a monitor who can review admissions data, according to CNN. The university would also have to prohibit overnight protests and revise its protest policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement additionally includes conditions that appear entirely unrelated to the initial antisemitism claims. 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