Posted on 05/05/2017 5:38:08 PM PDT by blam
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra apparently doesn’t think that $858 million is nearly enough taxpayer money to fight the Trump administration. That is precisely the amount that California’s state budget proposal, laid out by Governor Jerry Brown in January, allocated to Becerra’s Justice Department but in testimony before the Senate Budget committee yesterday Becerra said he needs even more to attract and keep qualified lawyers to defend the state. Per The Hill:
“No one anticipated the extent to which federal executive actions would impact the people of California and the Department of Justice. Who knew that the federal government would play so fast and loose with the law and taxpayers’ pocketbooks?”
“I am operating with a budget that was assembled without addressing the needs of current mandates and before our new reality of dealing with federal executive orders,” Becerra said. “If it feels like the attacks are constantly coming, it’s because they are.”
After taking over the state Justice Department in January, Becerra has joined or initiated several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration over everything from an immigration to changes to federal fuel efficiency standards.
Meanwhile, after the passage of the Obamacare repeal bill yesterday, Becerra issued a statement defining healthcare as a “right” of all Americans and suggesting that the next front in his legal war against the Trump administration could come over the Republicans’ efforts to undo Obama’s legacy.
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Liberals need to enter cattle cars and take a ride on that bullet train.
Oh, and add being involved with WACO.
No, me paying for a little fagg@t snowflake getting his girl preganant is not a right.
Go f yourselves
Eric Holder - is this a great gig or what?
A fool and his money are soon parted - PT Barnum
The latest from the land of fruits and nuts.
Sorry, I don’t support a felon gun runner who should be INDICTED AND LOCKED UP!
I think this is a great ides! Brings California just that much close to insolvency.
‘new reality’ sucks,huh Xavier?
Who knew the federal government would actually try to enforce the law?
After all - Hillary was expected to win so this comes as a YUGE surprise!
cap holder
The California gov’t is of, by, and for criminals. Especially the illegal alien kind.
And in case you think it is purely a Democrat affair let me remind you: George Bush 43. Amnesty pusher extraordinaire.
If that money goes to fighting this administration, it needs to be deducted from any aid they request.
Let them fund their own crumbling dams, crimes and welfare.
How does Eric Holder even have a Law License after being found in contempt for Lying Under Oath to Congress? Clinton lost his for Lying under Oath!
I thought they don’t have money to fix the road.
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