AG Bonta Announces Legal Challenges to Incoming Trump Administration Actions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : If Trump comes after your freedoms, I'll be there.
69% : If Trump goes after your freedoms, I'll be there.
59% : They saw where the election was heading and looked at everything Trump was promising to do.
56% : We've lived through Trump 1.0.
54% : Trump promised deportations shortly after taking office, for example, and Bonta highlighted that in the speech.
42% : "We know to take Trump at his word when he says he'll roll back environmental protections, go after our immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities, attack our civil rights and restrict access to essential reproductive care, which means we won't be flat footed," explained Bonta on Thursday.
40% : "You can be sure that as California Attorney General, if Trump attacks your rights, I'll be there.
35% : While Bonta's remarks and his willingness to go after Trump like Becerra did during the first administration was expected, it is currently unknown just how many legal challenges he and other state attorneys general will put forward.
34% : If Trump jeopardizes your safety and your well-being, I'll be there.
34% : If Trump jeopardizes your safety and your well-being, I'll be there.
30% : In some cases the challenges resulted in the state suing the federal government, and in other cases it meant a lawsuit in less than 24 hours after Trump signed a law.
28% : "If Trump attacks your rights come January, I'll be there.
27% : "What we saw the last few years of the Trump administration, with Becerra going after Trump, we'll see again starting in January with Bonta," explained Elise Cranston, a law researcher on state challenges against the federal government, to the Globe on Thursday.
27% : So they'll pounce on that once Trump signs off on that.
26% : However, the number is expected to be fairly high because of both the number of issues that Bonta brought up during the press conference and the number of issues Trump has brought up during the year.

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