Rob Bonta
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580 appearances
20 recordings
7 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 29 May
Rob Bonta’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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crosses that line into obstruction and interference and they're just dead wrong on it.
Like there aren't many things.
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.
He didn't know.
And, you know, he had a contempt for the law.
He recently said that the federal government, well, he said the Republicans should nationalize
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.
So they do try to use the law as a cudgel with very robust, expansive, incorrect interpretations.
But being a sanctuary jurisdiction, a quote-unquote sanctuary jurisdiction, is nowhere near the line.
And don't just take my word for it.
The Ninth Circuit already decided this issue.
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.
Something like...
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.
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.
I'll first say that we are in some unprecedented, uncharted territory.
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.
jurisdiction, there's been sharing of the evidence, sharing of access to the crime scene, the ability for each jurisdiction to fulfill their roles.
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
TBD of Renee Good, the federal government immediately said it would not investigate.
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