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California Preps To Take The Legal Fight To Donald Trump

Gavin Newsom knows what's up.

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Gavin Newsom 11/13

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The thing about a second Trump presidency is we kinda know what to expect. Oh, for sure Donald Trump will be emboldened and will inevitably shock with the cruelty of some policy he advances. But Dems are definitely aware there’s a legal fight a-brewin’. Or, more accurately, several legal fights ahead.

As such, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced yesterday he’s seeking a $25 million litigation war chest from the legislature to fight the inevitably awful Trump administration policies.

As reported by Reuters:

“The new litigation fund will help safeguard critical funding for disaster relief, health care, and other vital services that millions of Californians depend on daily”, the governor wrote in the proposal. He added the state plans to “defend against unlawful federal actions that could jeopardize not only tangible resources and the state’s economy” as well as protection of reproductive health care and civil rights.

The fights could also force the federal government to pay needed funding, Newsom said in a statement, citing successful legal skirmishes with the federal government during the first Trump administration.

And California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he’d staff up so the office would be ready to file restraining orders and injunctions as needed.

California is doing what it can to ready the resistance.

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