Posted on 01/04/2017 6:34:47 AM PST by Zakeet
Girding for four years of potential battles with President-elect Donald J. Trump, Democratic leaders of the California Legislature announced Wednesday that they had hired Eric H. Holder Jr., who was attorney general under President Obama, to represent them in any legal fights against the new Republican White House.
The decision by the Legislature to retain Mr. Holder, who is now a prominent Washington lawyer, is the latest sign of the ideological battle that may play out over the next four years between this predominantly Democratic state and Washington. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president, defeated Mr. Trump by more than four million votes here.
"Having the former attorney general of the United States brings us a lot of firepower in order to prepare to safeguard the values of the people of California," Kevin de León, the Democratic leader of the Senate, said in an interview. "This means we are very, very serious."
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One can only marvel at the idea of an independent American state hiring a functionary of the federal government to defend the state against the federal government so that the independent American state can carry out the wishes of the statist bureaucrats of the federal government.
I can hardly wait to see how bad Holder gets his come uppance when the real Trump machine goes to work!
Talk about a waste of money. There are all sorts of conflicts of interest in this scheme. I hope the new AG files a Motion to Disqualify.
Oh noze
Lol!
ha ha ha ha ha.
Trump gets to win again.
It's a very, very simple solution: Cut ALL Federal funding to the State. Let them know that, if they don't straighten up within a short amount of time, the flow of water and electricity from the Colorado river is next. Let the rotten, filthy, disgusting, ignorant, regressive, oppressive, anti-American, race baiting, leftist scumbag sanctuary state whither and die.
They'll come to their sense fairly quickly.
This is another friendly reminder that the Debt Ceiling restoration date of March 15, 2017 is a crucial one for Trump to leverage in order to get things done to stop reckless spending. My guess is that Holder will go to court to get some injunction that the “sanctuary” State/cities can keep getting money while they violate immigration laws. However the money can only flow if Congress appropriates it so Trump has to have resolve on this matter and go get some court injunction in place proactively to address spending issues.
Most of which were fraudulent votes by illegal aliens.
“Having the former attorney general of the United States brings us a lot of firepower in order to prepare to safeguard the values of the people of California,” Kevin de León, the Democratic leader of the Senate, said in an interview. “This means we are very, very serious.”
Maybe they just need him to facilitate selling all the Confiscated Assault Weapons to the Drug Cartels
Algonquin J. Calhoun.
1) Drink!
2) I guess it's just a template that we're going to see in every article for the next four years, kinda like our taglines here or a Signature in an email. The writers don't even have to write it themselves any more.
Fast and furious should put him in jail.
I wonder how soon it will be before Holder is under an indictment from a DC Grand Jury for all of his shenanigans as AG?
I wonder how soon it will be before Holder is under an indictment from a DC Grand Jury for all of his shenanigans as AG?
Fast and Furious illegal gun runner
USAG needs to prosecute Holder for perjury to Congress.
USAG needs to prosecute Holder for perjury to Congress.
CA thinks that Holder will still have power in the new administration.
He will not.
Holder played the part of the bully while he had the massive resources of the Federal government behind him. But now he’s not the biggest kid on the block. California will find that the bully really isn’t a very good lawyer.
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