UC Berkeley researchers team up for first-of-its-kind lawsuit over Trump funding cuts

Berkeley Wire: Downtown parking garage eyed for pickleball court, UC professors sue Trump over lost funding

Also: A transgender woman was shot by pellet gun in downtown Berkeley, an attack police called a hate crime.

California files mixed bag of lawsuits against Trump

It’s easy to describe California’s steady stream of lawsuits against the Trump administration—16 so far this year and at least 120 during his first term—as political grandstanding. The state is dominated by Democrats, who are opposed the GOP president’s policies so they are using whatever tools they have to gum up the works. Most of the federal briefs filed by California during the Biden administration supported the Democratic president’s object…

Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say

By Annie Grayer, Gabe Cohen and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort that could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources. Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the Unive…

Trump cut UC Berkeley researchers' funding. Their response is a fierce lawsuit.

Education researchers lose to Trump administration in first round of court challenge

The courts have pushed back against much of President Donald Trump’s agenda, but he did win a small victory this week in a dispute with education researchers.On June 3, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., denied a request by four education research trade associations for a preliminary injunction, which means that the Education Department doesn’t have to temporarily reinstate fired employees and canceled contracts within its research and data ar…

Condi Rice: Don't F**K With Scientific Funding For Universities

Condoleezza Rice, the director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution, refused to back Trump's attacks on universities when she appeared on Fox & Friends and explained why federal funding for scientific research should never be targeted. Co-host Brian Kilmeade tried his best to get Rice to cosign Trump's unfounded attacks on universities, but Rice explained how important that funding is to the health and well-being of the entire country.. …