The whole country will be LA and Southern California if we don’t get tough now.
California is a special case, or at least the worst instance of a special case.
It may be in Nevada that the whore houses are legal, but California has been acting like one in enough places that whatever the rest of the state may want is simply forgotten.
Trump has a number of cards he can play, but only the ones that are provided in the Constitution.
I might not rule out the use of the armed forces to “protect California from invasion” even if California itself doesn’t want that. That’s square out of the Constitution. Sheriffs like this might not be arrested for their 10th Amendment prerogatives, to be sure — but they would be shoved aside like the irrelevant pests they are.
Does Trump want to dare that, though. Dunno.