Rob Bonta

medical procedure.

And there's no appropriate basis for that information to be sought by an out-of-state entity.

And so there are protections in place for that.

Basically, we are protecting anything in California that is lawful in California from any type of exposure to civil or criminal liability from someone outside of the state who sees it differently.

it's a coalition of co-equals we are all um a independent executive in our sovereign states we no one's the boss of anybody else we're all each other's peers we work together by choice deliberately and intentionally because we believe that we together can create something that's greater and stronger and more powerful than the sum of our parts when we come together as a whole

And we have been planning and talking and strategizing and preparing since before Trump was elected.

knowing that we couldn't guarantee he wouldn't be.

And also knowing that we owed our constituents readiness, preparedness, that we could not be caught flat footed, that we couldn't, you know, if Trump got elected say, hey, we were all hoping Kamala would get elected and now we don't know what to do.

We had to know.

And so we listened to everything he said on the campaign trail, his promises, even if it might be bluff or it might be bluster, we took him at his word and assumed he was gonna do it.

And he handed to us a written document that told us what he would do.

Project 2025.

And we reviewed that and looked at all of the plans therein and assumed he was going to engage in trying to manifest those plans.

And my team and our collective teams were tasked with being ready for that.

all of the above, be ready for the Insurrection Act, be ready for the Comstock Act, be ready for all of these sort of fringe theory approaches to seizing power that's not theirs in the, quote unquote, unitary executive and attacking our states and our progress and our policies and our people and our values.

So, you know, there are some things that haven't had to come, haven't come to pass yet.

We've been ready to address for months.

We don't want them to come to pass, but if they do, all we have to do is dot the I's, cross the T's, press print and file our complaint.

And we believe we'll win because we've thought about it and we prepared.

And among our, there are 24 democratic attorneys general.