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Before his recent resignation, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spent the better part of two years trying to turn back the clock on criminal justice reform. Among his other regressive actions, last year Sessions rescinded 25 guidance documents issued by his predecessors in the Department of Justice, or DOJ, including
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Margaret Atwood delivered this year’s On the Same Page keynote address, titled “The Handmaid’s Tale Escapes from Its Book.”
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The truth is that I am unsure what comes after my graduation because my future isn’t completely in my hands. My future is tied to the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
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The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday against California alleging that the state’s sanctuary city laws are unconstitutional.
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East Bay Sanctuary Covenant refugee rights advocate Lily Woo is applying for her third Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, or DACA, renewal, which will protect her from deportation for another two years. She is able to do so, at least for now, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision to reject the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court ruling regarding DACA on Monday.
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In an effort to unveil some of the science behind the substance, the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley hosted a series on the “Science of Cannabis.”
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We must cement a more coherent and explicit ontology of “free speech.” It is failure to clearly delineate the parameters of freedom of and freedom from speech
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Marijuana enforcement has never been high on Berkeley’s priority list, but now City Council will discuss a resolution to make Berkeley a sanctuary city.
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The Department of Justice, or DOJ, threatened Wednesday to issue a subpoena to the city of Berkeley if the city does not hand over documents showing whether or not local law enforcement is sharing information with federal immigration authorities.
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Four days after the recreational sale of cannabis became legal in California, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lifted an Obama-era policy that allowed states to legalize marijuana with minimal federal interference.
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