Posted on 01/04/2017 12:41:02 PM PST by Hojczyk
California lawmakers already are preparing for a legal brawl with the Donald Trump administration – and they’ve got President Obama’s former top attorney in their corner.
Top state Democratic lawmakers announced Wednesday that former Attorney General Eric Holder has been tapped as outside counsel to advise the Legislature on potential challenges with the Trump government. He will lead a team from the Covington & Burling law firm, where he’s been working since leaving the Obama administration in 2015.
“With the upcoming change in administrations, we expect that there will be extraordinary challenges for California in the uncertain times ahead,” California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said in a statement. “This is a critical moment in the history of our nation. We have an obligation to defend the people who elected us and the policies and diversity that make California an example of what truly makes our nation great.”
They said Holder and his team will advise “in our efforts to resist any attempts to roll back the progress California has made.”
The statement did not specify which policies they anticipate will cause friction, though California’s numerous sanctuary cities are likely to face challenges from an administration that has threatened to pull their federal funding.
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Follow the money!
Funny how certain people always get taken care of.
Some cats always wind up on their feet whatever happens. Like some people are too big to fail, and some of them know too much to have them walking around without being well-compensated.
Yes.....just split east and west California and the western half can secede......please go.
Hopefully, Sessions will take care of Holder’s racist ass and throw him in jail where he belongs.
Oh no, I really need a GoFundMe site to relocate. Maybe Trump will consider me for refugee status.
Wiener - Holder 2020
Sometimes I feel like we should just let California secede and get rid of them. The Dems would never win another election.
Correct headline: Mass murderer hired by California democrat party
Isn’t he under contempt of Congress?
What does it mean if there are no consequences?
Ha!
When you are one of the baddest towns in the West, you go out and find the most low-life and meanest gunslinger around, and make him the town marshal.
Ain’t nobody gonna mess around with HIM. Unless you are meaner, more low-live and badder than than that marshal.
Rooster Cogburn is coming for you, Ned Pepper.
How about if Trump goes after Holder for the fast and furious debacle. That would fix that racist puke.
I believe he is an affirmative action pick. I don’t think he is particularly competent. (Good choice, California!)
AG Sessions needs to indict the obozo, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and the heads of the FBI and the ATF at the time over their Fast Furious US tax payer funded murderous illegal gun running provision to the Mexican drug cartels. Anyone else who had done that would have been in jail by now.
Why wasn’t he Immediately and Permanently DISBARRED for LYING to Congress???
Indict???
Hmm, My President in 1973 Issued an Executive Order proclaiming a “WAR” on drugs.
Shortly thereafter My Congress Passed and the President Signed multiple pieces of Legislation Authorizing and bolstering the “WAR” on drugs.
Our US Military is used extensively in the “WAR” on drugs
if it looks like a duck then this is TREASON,
Supplying Weapons and Laundering Criminal Profits from a “DECLARED” enemy in the “WAR” on drugs is and always will be TREASON, they should ALL SWING upon Conviction.
Is Fast & Furious still relevant? Past Statue of Limitations?
Strongly worded letters have no consequences attached.
Holder is a monster. The success of his “fast & furious” plan depended on the murder of random innocent persons.
Holder belongs in prison.
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