Rob Bonta
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The lawsuit argues that the USDA's guidance excludes lawfully residing non-citizens from SNAP eligibility by misclassifying groups such as refugees as ineligible until after a five-year waiting period.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta says the Trump administration is putting a crucial lifeline at risk.
Without court intervention, Bonta says errors in eligibility could deprive thousands of legal permanent residents of SNAP benefits.
Minnesota's AG Keith Ellison added, All we're doing is standing against callous cruelty.
The USDA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It was an Oregon case until today, though California, I speaking directly with AG Rayfield and my team talking to them have been very closely communicating with them about what happened in LA with California since we were first. We've been supporting our fellow AGs as they face deployments of National Guard, whether it be DC or Oregon. And then today we got directly brought into the case with
300 federalized California National Guard people being moved a thousand miles up north to Portland, where a judge had already said yesterday that the conditions on the ground absolutely do not justify the federalization of National Guard. They don't justify the federalization of Oregon National Guard. And so...
The federal government in its ingenious thinking said, well, her order, though it said there were no conditions to bring the National Guard, Federalized National Guard to Oregon, applied to the Oregon National Guard. How about we bring in California National Guard? Maybe that'll work.
She was completely miffed. I just listened in on the entire hearing. First of all, thank you to my incredible team, the incredible teams in Oregon and Portland. It was a team effort. Folks working overtime, obviously today is a Sunday, and democracy needs to be protected every day, and the rule of law does as well. She was really miffed. Her first set of questions of the federal government were, how does this not violate my order from yesterday?
I think she's right, that this sort of super technical approach to try to bring National Guard in that's from another state and just minutes before the hearing commenced, we got word through a memorandum from Secretary Hegseth that the Texas
National Guard has been federalized, 2000 of them, with 400 of them being deployed to both Portland and Chicago. So it is clear that
It's a sort of whack-a-mole approach from the federal government. You stop the Oregon National Guard from being federalized, we'll bring in the California National Guard. You stop the California National Guard from being brought up north, we'll bring in the Texas National Guard. You stop them, who's got next? We got a bunch of others we can bring in. So we asked her, the judge, to issue a broad order.
joka vaikuttaa kaikkien kansallisten sääntöjen, kaikkien valtioiden ja Colombian puolustusten kaikkien. Ja eikä mitään niitä pystytä edistämään. Ne voidaan edistää ylipäätään Oregoniin. Hän laittoi sen lopun. Hän käsittelee sen myös kirjoittamalla lopun.
She was concerned based on the behavior of the federal government about what the scope of her order should be and believed, and I agree, that a broad order that is broad in scope is appropriate. So the conditions have not changed in 24 hours. National Guard being deployed in Oregon was unlawful yesterday. It's unlawful today as well. It doesn't matter where the National Guard comes from, whether they're Oregon's National Guard or California's or Texas's.
I think the judge nailed it. The Trump-appointed judge nailed it and looked at the facts, looked at the law, issued an order expeditiously and appropriately stopped Trump from this unlawful conduct.
She nails it. She knows what's at stake. She knows what the issues are here. This Trump-appointed judge is doing her duty. She's following the facts, following the law. Chips fall where they may. You apply the law to the facts and make decisions not influenced by political ideology or who the president is or who appointed you. She's doing what her job is. I didn't mean to interrupt you. Sorry about that.