Rob Bonta
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I worry about attempts to use the U.S.
Postal Service, a federal, part of the federal government to interfere with vote by mail ballots that are cast.
I worry about the people's voice not being heard and being stepped on by an unlawful president who's violating their rights.
And so that just,
fuels me more to fight harder.
I'm also concerned we haven't seen sort of the other shoe drop, if you will, on attacks on abortion.
We were prepared for a weaponization of the Comstock Act to try to stop the mailing of medication abortion.
Haven't seen that yet, but we're prepared and ready if it happens.
And those are some of the things
that are top of mind.
We haven't seen the Insurrection Act be invoked and hope we never will.
But he has bandied it about and sort of dangled it out there and suggested he might use it multiple times.
And we have closed the door on his ability to use 10 U.S.C.
12406.
That's the federal statute that he relied on to deploy
National Guard, Federalized National Guard to LA, to Portland and to Chicago.
And with the US Supreme Court case and their recent decision, I believe that door is shut pretty firmly.
And so I don't think he will stop in his efforts to use the military as his private roving national army and police force.
And we'll just find other ways and the Insurrection Act might be that way.
The thing that makes the Interaction Act...