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Rob Bonta

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

When Trump was inaugurated, there were 23.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

The Virginia AG flipped from,

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

red to blue in the election in November of last year.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

And we communicate every week.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

We meet often.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

We pick up the phones regularly.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

Our staffs are in regularly set meetings to communicate, plan, prepare.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

We are flagging issues that we see in our states, asking the other states if they're experiencing the same things and deciding where we file a lawsuit, what claims we file on, what our injury is.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

and how we protect our people and our states from these unlawful actions.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

So there has been consistent contact, communication, strategizing, planning, preparing since before Trump was elected until today.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

And now we're 55 lawsuits in.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

in California and, you know, a really strong record of success.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

And we're ready for whatever comes.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

Got a full tank of gas, full of energy, ready to roll.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

Hope that this president might decide, hey, maybe it's a good idea to follow my oath.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

And comply with the Constitution and not trample on it and not look over longingly at Congress and say, hey, I'd love to have the power of the purse.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

I'm just going to start using it.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

Or looking over at our courts and saying they can't review my actions.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

Or looking down at the states and saying they don't have any sovereign rights.

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta

They need to do what I say.