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

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

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 ...

and fight to restore faith in the Nation's justice system," Gates said in a statement announcing his departure and his new position as a deputy assistant attorney general. Gates, 49, joins the ...