Newsom calls special session to fund California's legal defense against Trump
Source: Los Angeles Times
Newsom calls special session to fund California’s legal defense against Trump
By Taryn Luna
Staff Writer
Nov. 7, 2024 9 AM PT
-- Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking California lawmakers to increase state funding for litigation against the incoming Trump administration.
-- California anticipates that Trump could seek to limit access to abortion, dismantle environmental protections and withhold federal disaster response funding.
-- The new special session provides an early look at the governor’s plan to wage an aggressive and highly visible campaign to shield California from the Trump White House.
Launching his first salvo less than 36 hours after former President Trump was again elected to the White House, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday convened a special session of the state Legislature to increase legal funding to defend civil rights, climate change, access to abortion, disaster funding and other California policies from a conservative federal agenda before the inauguration in January.
Newsom’s preemptive strike signals the return of the hostile relationship between Democratic-controlled California and the Trump administration that was a hallmark of the Republican’s first term.
“The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack — and we won’t sit idle,” Newsom said in a statement. “California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond. We are prepared to fight in the courts, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.”
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Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-11-07/newsom-calls-special-session-california-laws-funding-lawsuits-trump
Hat tip, Joe.My.God.
Newsom Calls Special Session To Fight Trump’s Edicts
November 7, 2024
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/11/newcom-calls-special-session-to-fight-trumps-edicts/

Old Crank
(5,461 posts)Trump was a pain his first term and likely to be worse this time around.
Clear air laws that are tighter will be up for removal.
orangecrush
(23,951 posts)And follow suit
Magoo48
(6,138 posts)As I recall, he did the same after his 2018 election.
I’m sure that the majority us living in the California Republic are serious about not becoming fascists.
The Orange Menace receives as little play here as we can afford. And, with some sacrifice, we have the resources to operate a national style economy here if he cuts us off.
world wide wally
(21,836 posts)generalbetrayus
(819 posts)byronius
(7,692 posts)I’m so pissed off.
My wife wants to buy our first gun. My son the attorney suggested father and son AR-15’s.
I agree. Fuck that fucking fucker.
Auggie
(32,166 posts)4catsmom
(616 posts)a sleazy shakedown artist. The revolution will start in California
Silver Gaia
(5,037 posts)California is the best place to be right now. Yes, the monster may hate us, but we are a stronghold against him. Here, there remains a blue wall between us and the evil in DC. I know I am safer here than I would be anywhere else I've lived in my life. I may be disgusted with my country, but I am very glad to be a Californian.
Demobrat
(10,103 posts)from Chicago when I was 22. The day I crossed the border I knew I would never leave. And I never will.
I think California, Oregon, and Washington should work together to make plans for mutual disaster aid, though. We have to be ready to forget the federal government even exists.
Silver Gaia
(5,037 posts)NBachers
(18,409 posts)I’m afraid the maggots will begin starting fires in California and try to burn the state down.
Silver Gaia
(5,037 posts)Any of us who live in fire prone areas need to be ready. Have a plan.
kimbutgar
(24,651 posts)A fire would not go over big for them.
JohnSJ
(98,263 posts)Silver Gaia
(5,037 posts)I am certainly open to it.
Tikki
(14,815 posts)California Washington State Oregon Colorado and Hawaii and New Mexico or just call it a Pacific Alliance.
Good government can stand and is stronger together.
Tikki
quaint
(3,818 posts)Silver Gaia
(5,037 posts)but it sets a good precedent for cooperation in tough times, so hopefully, they are, or soon will be, working on something to unite us against this tyranny.
quaint
(3,818 posts)Attilatheblond
(5,561 posts)Need to dust it off and dig in again
You have a point about magas and burning it all down. Bunch of nihilist idiots
JohnSJ
(98,263 posts)Silver Gaia
(5,037 posts)pfitz59
(11,421 posts)It's where the money is. The (mostly) poor red states don't offer enough to make grifting profitable.
Silver Gaia
(5,037 posts)And we will be ready for that, too.
Butterflylady
(4,334 posts)YoshidaYui
(43,429 posts)MAKE us safe from the ORANGE menace.
erodriguez
(855 posts)Irish_Dem
(67,075 posts)Which has become a corrupt fascist entity.
Jit423
(1,113 posts)tax breaks and huge tax cuts that starve the Federal coffers and create huge deficits and raise inflations rates.
Irish_Dem
(67,075 posts)Or to try to fight them off.
Frank D. Lincoln
(894 posts)Is Newsom the only one being proactive against the imminent fascist takeover?
Irish_Dem
(67,075 posts)Silver Gaia
(5,037 posts)Yavin4
(37,182 posts)Jointly sue him if he wants to do some shit.
peacebuzzard
(5,391 posts)it's what I love about blue compatriots when the threats start.
We are a divided country as long as TrumpoDumpo and his gang have power.
travelingthrulife
(1,939 posts)n/t