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Rob Bonta

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

This is kind of what Trump does.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

He likes to use leverage.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

He sees money as leverage.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

He also sees force as leverage.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

He sees military occupation as leverage.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

See LA in June of this year when the National Guard was unlawfully forced

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

And the Marines were sent in as well.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

And then he did that in another blue city, Portland, and another blue city, Washington, D.C., and another blue city, Chicago, while berating them about their alleged public safety issues and complaining about their policies of sanctuary, which they have every right to adopt.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

Well, in that regard, we are asserting ourselves in California with respect to our state's rights to decide that abortion is safe and legal.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

We've even enshrined it in our state constitution here.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

The people of our state decided that there is a constitutional right to an abortion and contraception.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

We've created laws that provide the ability for patients to seek and receive and providers to provide safe and legal abortions in California.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

And also prevented attempts from other states to sort of engage in long-arm civil and criminal liability laws.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

Trying to reach into California and because something that we find completely legal and that is safe in California, but they disagree in their state that there's liability in that other state.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

So we've put up a number of different guardrails and protections and legal safe havens in California.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

And we think that is all within our rights.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

to do so and that our decisions here, the court's decisions here deserve full faith and credit and should be honored by other states.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

So we don't see any constitutional problems with our robust lawful commitment to safe and legal abortion in California.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

Yeah, there are some prohibitions on, for example, a corporation like, let's say, Apple or Google getting a subpoena from an out-of-state entity about a medical procedure abortion that is completely legal in California.

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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

It's a legal and private procedure.