Overview
- Attorney General Rob Bonta reports 54 suits since Jan. 20, 2025, with 12 final rulings, 35 emergency orders, and six instances where the administration backed down.
- An emergency court order this month restored $5 billion the administration had abruptly frozen for child care and anti-poverty programs in California.
- California highlights a December U.S. Supreme Court decision curbing the administration’s claimed authority to federalize the National Guard, leaving no federalized Guard on Los Angeles streets.
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld a nationwide injunction against the executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship.
- The state says it spent $19 million on these cases and estimates about $188 billion in federal funding has been protected, with many suits pursued in multistate coalitions and San Francisco separately filing 14 cases.