DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — A conservative organization is asking the California Supreme Court to block the state's first-in-the-nation plan to give money to immigrants living in the country illegally who are hurt by the coronavirus.
The Center for American Liberty argued on behalf of two long-shot Republican legislative candidates that the $75 million plan Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week is barred by both state and federal law.
Newsom is offering $500 apiece to 150,000 unemployed adults who were left out of the stimulus package approved by Congress because of their immigration status. The money is to be distributed through nonprofit groups, to protect recipients from providing personal information that might cost them other benefits or increase their dange
