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“We can’t let these kinds of school shootings, whether it’s an individual case like this or the mass shootings that have destroyed America, (continue),” Breit said. “School safety, teacher safety, children’s safety is the most important thing. This verdict reminds people that you will be held accountable if you don’t make that your first concern.”
“These politically and financially motivated actions will have a detrimental impact on public health for our consumers in this state,” a Kevnue spokesperson said in a statement. “We will do everything in our power to stand up for sound, credible evidence.”
“We are confident the facts will demonstrate that the Wyss Foundation and Beger Action Fund have always complied with the law,” a spokesperson said.
Gov. Newsom’s office says that it has yet to be served with a copy of the lawsuit, but vowed to fight any filing in court.
The lawsuit notes that the Trump administration allegedly included “illegal and impossible-to-meet grant terms” for certain programs, departing from past practice and serving “only as obstacles in obtaining and using the funding as previously promised.”
“This is the latest example of the Trump Administration’s weaponization of the federal government to go after people it does not agree with, all the while betraying and eroding the very institutions that uphold our democracy,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said. “We’ll see the President in court.”
“Per orders issued by the United States District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, [the Trump Administration] intends to deplete SNAP contingency funds completely and provide reduced SNAP benefits for November 2025,” Trump administration attorneys wrote.
NPR notes that, less than two months into his second term as president, Trump began attacking National Public Radio and its televised counterpart, PBS, as “radical left MONSTERS.” In May, he followed up by issuing an executive order cutting federal funding to both NPR and PBS.
The 76-page lawsuit names defendants including U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, alongside other government officials and agencies.
The lawsuit notes that the school’s student newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, received a charter in 1969 to protect its “independence and freedom.” On its website, the paper says that “[f]inal content decisions and responsibility rest with duly appointed student editors and managed.”