The Department of Justice on Thursday said it would investigate four California universities for potential "illegal DEI" in admissions, suggesting the schools flouted state law and U.S. Supreme Court precedent banning the use of race as a factor when evaluating college applicants.

The Trump administration says it has opened investigations into the admissions policies at Stanford University and three campuses within the University of California system, including UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine.

California banned affirmative action decades ago. The Trump administration says it plans to investigate whether schools there are still considering race.

California passed a law that prohibits schools from requiring staff to notify parents if a student identifies as transgender. The U.S. Department of Education alleges the law violates parents’ rights.

California officials said they won’t back down from a state law that protects the privacy of transgender students, despite the Trump administration’s threat today to withhold federal funding over the issue.

The Trump administration will investigate whether a new California law banning parental notification requirements in schools violates federal policy.

A week after an inmate was charged with murdering his wife at the Mule Creek State Prison near Sacramento, it has been revealed that a similar situation happened at the same prison late last year. NBC News reported that Stephanie Diane Dowells,

Two women were allegedly strangled to death during separate overnight family visits at the same California prison