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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fierce professional of erstwhile President Donald Trump, connected Thursday called for lawmakers to convene a peculiar league aboriginal this twelvemonth to safeguard the state's progressive policies connected clime change, reproductive rights and migration up of different Trump presidency.
The determination - a time aft the erstwhile president resoundingly defeated Vice President Kamala Harris successful the statesmanlike contention - efficaciously reignited California's absorption run against blimpish policies that authorities Democratic leaders started during the archetypal Trump administration.
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"The freedoms we clasp beloved successful California are nether onslaught - and we won't beryllium idle," Newsom, who reportedly has ambitions connected the nationalist stage, said successful a statement. "California has faced this situation before, and we cognize however to respond. We are prepared to combat successful the courts, and we volition bash everything indispensable to guarantee Californians person the enactment and resources they request to thrive."
Newsom and lawmakers accidental they're acceptable to "Trump-proof" California's authorities laws. His announcement Thursday called connected the Legislature to springiness the lawyer general's bureau much backing to combat national challenges erstwhile they conscionable successful December.
California's determination is portion of a increasing treatment among Democratic authorities officials seeking to support policies that look threats nether Trump's leadership. Other bluish states are besides moving rapidly to hole crippled plans for different Trump presidency and expect a fiercer conflict this clip astir with a Republican-dominated Senate and perchance House.
In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James said elder staffers program to conscionable regularly to coordinate ineligible strategies.
"Our squad volition bash immoderate we person to bash to place immoderate imaginable threats to these rights that we clasp beloved successful the State of New York and support New Yorkers," Hochul said astatine a quality league Wednesday.
Hochul said she has created a task unit focused connected processing argumentation responses to "key areas that are astir apt to look threats from the Trump administration" specified arsenic "reproductive rights, civilian rights, immigration, weapon safety, labour rights, LGBTQ rights and our biology justice."
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who arsenic authorities lawyer wide filed dozens of lawsuits against Trump during his archetypal term, said they volition "have to spot if helium makes bully connected what helium promised and ran connected successful presumption of Project 2025 oregon different things."
Attorney General Andrea Campbell said she and different attorneys wide are "absolutely cleareyed that president-elect Trump has told america precisely what helium intends to bash arsenic president."
After Trump's win, Newsom vowed to enactment with the president-elect but added, "Let determination beryllium nary mistake, we mean to basal with states crossed our federation to support our Constitution and uphold the regularisation of law."
California was location to the alleged Trump absorption during his clip successful office, and Trump often depicts California arsenic representing each helium sees incorrect successful America.
Trump called the Democratic politician "New-scum" during a run halt successful Southern California past period and has relentlessly lambasted the Democratic stronghold and nation's astir populous authorities implicit its ample fig of immigrants successful the U.S. illegally, its stateless colonisation and its thicket of regulations.
Trump besides waded into a h2o rights conflict implicit the endangered delta smelt that has pitted environmentalists against farmers and threatened to withhold national assistance to a authorities progressively nether menace from wildfires.
In a code Wednesday morning, Trump vowed to travel done with his run committedness of carrying retired the wide deportation of immigrants without ineligible presumption and prosecuting his governmental enemies.
Newsom and Democratic lawmakers said they are acting present to shield the state's policies that person made it a person successful the nation.
"We learned a batch astir erstwhile President Trump successful his archetypal word - he's petty, vindictive, and volition bash what it takes to get his mode nary substance however unsafe the argumentation whitethorn be," authorities Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire said successful a statement. "California has travel excessively acold and accomplished excessively overmuch to simply surrender and judge his dystopian imaginativeness for America."
Newsom has called California a sanctuary for radical successful different states seeking abortions. The authorities has passed dozens of laws to support termination access, including mounting speech $20 cardinal successful payer wealth to assistance wage for patients successful different states to question to California to get an abortion. Newsom besides leads a conjugation of 20 Democratic governors launched successful 2023 to fortify termination access.
The authorities was besides the archetypal to mandate that each caller cars, pickup trucks and SUVs sold successful California beryllium electric, hydrogen-powered oregon plug-in hybrids by 2035 and springiness authorities regulators the powerfulness to penalize lipid companies for making excessively overmuch money. California besides extends state-funded wellness attraction to each low-income residents careless of their migration status.
State Attorney General Rob Bonta said his bureau spent the past twelvemonth reviewing much than 120 lawsuits the authorities filed during Trump's archetypal word successful mentation of caller national actions.
With Trump's White House triumph and California's assumed relation successful starring the renewed absorption movement, Newsom besides is bound to beryllium elevated onto the abbreviated database of immoderate statesmanlike information for 2028, Sonoma State University governmental subject prof David McCuan said.
The governor, who won't beryllium eligible to tally for politician again erstwhile his word ends successful 2027, volition person the adjacent 2 years to beryllium himself arsenic an effectual GOP antidote portion maintaining a moving narration with the president-elect.
"He wants to beryllium seen arsenic a governmental revivalist, and truthful that puts him beforehand and center," McCuan said.
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