Rob Bonta

So here we have beat the Trump administration four times in the last year on this move, on the Trump administration trying to condition funding California is owed on a requirement that we engage in immigration enforcement the way he wants us to.

We beat him when it came to Department of Transportation funding, Department of Homeland Security funding, and he just backed down and threw in the towel when it came to Victims of Crime Act, VOCA funding.

So I think he'll try again.

On February 1st, he was supposed to try to withhold funding from sanctuary jurisdictions again.

February 1st has come and passed, but we remain vigilant and on high alert to see what he might do because this is something he did in Trump 1.0.

He did it again in 2.0.

We think he'll do it again, but we are on very solid constitutional ground and we have won every time he's tried to do this.

And we believe we will win again if he tries again.

Yeah, Minnesota and Illinois both brought cases of this nature, asserting 10th Amendment claims against the federal government.

And the cases we've talked about already involved sort of the coercive use of funding, attaching conditions to the funding and attempts to withhold huge amounts, billions of dollars worth of funding.

And that becomes coercive at some point and becomes compulsion.

There's other ways you can coerce or compel.

It could be a command and control where you order or mandate, or it can be a militarized occupation of your state until you give in and say, I'll no longer be a sanctuary state.

And the chaos, the constitutional rights violations, the deaths, the killings of American citizens.

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until sanctuary policies were withdrawn.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.