Rob Bonta

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.

This is kind of what Trump does.

He likes to use leverage.

He sees money as leverage.

He also sees force as leverage.

He sees military occupation as leverage.

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