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Rob Bonta

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

crosses that line into obstruction and interference and they're just dead wrong on it.

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

Like there aren't many things.

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

Like when Trump said that, you know, he wasn't sure if the due process clause of the United States Constitution applied to people as opposed to citizens.

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

He didn't know.

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

And, you know, he had a contempt for the law.

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

He recently said that the federal government, well, he said the Republicans should nationalize

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

elections, where the Elections Clause in the United States Constitution says that elections are predominantly an area for states to determine the time, place, and manner of those elections.

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

So they do try to use the law as a cudgel with very robust, expansive, incorrect interpretations.

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

But being a sanctuary jurisdiction, a quote-unquote sanctuary jurisdiction, is nowhere near the line.

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

And don't just take my word for it.

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

The Ninth Circuit already decided this issue.

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

It's done and dusted, decided already back in Trump 1.0 when the Ninth Circuit said that SB 54 is upheld and fully within California's Tenth Amendment constitutional rights.

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

Something like...

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

physically obstructing, you know, assaulting a immigration officer in the lawful execution of official duties of immigration enforcement, you know, that's something that crosses the line.

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

That's what obstruction is, interference is, but not a state executing its constitutional rights under the 10th Amendment to be a pro-public safety, pro-public community trust jurisdiction.

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

I'll first say that we are in some unprecedented, uncharted territory.

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

Unfortunately, there has long been a spirit of cooperation between the federal government and state and local governments when it comes to, for example, a crime that occurs in a state and there could be concurrent, overlapping crimes.

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

jurisdiction, there's been sharing of the evidence, sharing of access to the crime scene, the ability for each jurisdiction to fulfill their roles.

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

But the federal government has changed in its position and shown a unwillingness to cooperate after the murder, excuse me, the killing and maybe murder of

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

TBD of Renee Good, the federal government immediately said it would not investigate.