This is the week that Gavin Newsom stopped thinking so much.

Advocates are calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to permanently close the state's deactivated prisons before they can be repurposed by the federal government as immigration detention centers, in order to protect California's progress on decarceration and prevent ICE expansion.

Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, shopping in Beverly Hills amidst ongoing, anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles in June 2025. Rating: Miscaptioned (About this rating?) Context: The photograph dated to January 2025,

Attorney General Bondi criticizes Governor Newsom's handling of anti-ICE riots, promising federal charges for looters after Newsom claimed Trump's troop deployment inflamed tensions.

In the midst of a heated dispute with President Donald Trump over sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles, California Gov. Gavin Newsom took to TikTok in a mock celebration of Trump's birthday. On his official account,

Advocates are calling on Governor Newsom to fully decommission shuttered state prisons and prevent them from being repurposed as ICE detention centers, as federal immigration raids are increasing across California.

Donald Trump on Monday suggested that California Governor Gavin Newsom should be arrested over his handling of unrest in Los Angeles, escalating tensions after the President mobilized the National Guard to quell anti-ICE protests over the weekend.

Gov. Phil Murphy expressed support for California Gov. Gavin Newsom and believes the lawmaker is on the “right side of history.”

Newsom and Trump have been a tit-for-tat fight over the past several days regarding Trump's use of the National Guard in Los Angeles in response to ant-ICE protests in the city

The National Guard, brought in by the Trump administration over the weekend, remains in Southern California as the area has entered Day 8 of anti-ICE protests.