Rob Bonta

And the U.S.

Attorney General, Pam Bondi, wrote a letter

that said some of this in it and and sent it to minnesota and said you know we can withdraw and de-escalate if you do these things that you're already beating us on cordon that we tried to do in other ways but it was coercion of another type not not necessarily financial but imposing a unprecedented militarized occupation in the form of operation metro surge

until sanctuary policies were withdrawn.

And also there was also a equal sovereignty claim.

And equal sovereignty is the idea that all states are on equal footing in the eyes of the federal government, that they should all be treated the same.

Trump doesn't treat all states the same.

He targets and focuses on and attacks democratic states, blue states.

I mean, he says it.

It's not a conclusion or an inference.

It's what he says explicitly he will do.

So those arguments were advanced in the Minnesota case and in the Illinois case.

The Northern District of Illinois has not yet issued any opinions.

In the Minnesota case, at the preliminary injunction stage, Minnesota's arguments were not accepted by the court at this point.

So we'll see what happens next.

There's more of the case to occur and more stages in it left.

But we think these are important arguments.

to stake out by the states who are being coerced in different ways by the Trump administration.

And we're in unprecedented territory.

The Trump administration is doing things we haven't seen before, trying to coerce, trying to compel, using different tactics and different levers.