{"id":193844,"date":"2026-02-25T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193844\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:42:07","slug":"wired-wednesday-fresno-leads-lawsuit-against-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193844\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired Wednesday: Fresno Leads Lawsuit Against Trump Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GV Wire\u2019s Edward Smith talks with KMPH Fox 26 \u201cGreat Day\u201d anchor Karl Cooke about the c<a href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/2026\/02\/23\/fresno-sues-kristi-noem-pam-bondi-for-using-dei-immigration-restrictions-on-firefighter-police-grants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ity of Fresno\u2019s lawsuit against the Trump administration.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>City Attorney Andrew Janz, lead attorney for the suit, said in the complaint that the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Department of the Interior illegally rewrote grant eligibility rules to promote Trump\u2019s political agenda, violating the Constitution by taking power away from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>DHS and DOJ have put restrictions on grants using Trump\u2019s executive orders on DEI, immigration, and gender interpretations.<\/p>\n<p>Other plaintiffs in the lawsuit include Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Redwood City, Beaverton, Oregon, and Stockton. Counties include San Diego, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rlic_tareqanwar_link\">Related Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/2026\/02\/23\/fresno-sues-kristi-noem-pam-bondi-for-using-dei-immigration-restrictions-on-firefighter-police-grants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Sues Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi for Using DEI, Immigration Restrictions on &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GV Wire\u2019s Edward Smith talks with KMPH Fox 26 \u201cGreat Day\u201d anchor Karl Cooke about the city of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,7030],"class_list":["post-193844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-wired-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}