Huntington Beach’s outspoken city attorney — who has spent years being a thorn in the side of Gov. Gavin Newsom — is taking a ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has plucked a right-wing city attorney from Huntington Beach to serve its civil rights ...

Gates said he is leaving to become a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s civil rights division.

Michael Gates, Huntington Beach's longtime city attorney and an aggressive foe of California's liberal politics, joins the ...