By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-29 15:15:37 | Updated at 2025-01-06 12:43:14
1 week ago
Democratic attorneys general gear up for return of Trump court battles
CNN ^ | December 29, 2024 | By Tierney Sneed
Posted on 12/29/2024 7:02:49 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When the frequent court foes of Donald Trump’s first administration look back at the early days of his presidency, they recall “building the airplane as we were flying it,” as outgoing Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has described it. That was especially true of the intense and quick-moving court fight over the so-called travel ban, a seminal 2017 lawsuit that set the tone for four more years of legal confrontations.
None of the Democratic state attorneys general who originally took Trump to court over that controversial policy will still be in office when he is inaugurated next month. But their successors won’t be starting from scratch this time around, even amid a different legal landscape and political climate.
They have been preparing for months, if not years, for what kind of lawsuits they might want to bring against a Trump 2.0 agenda. They’ve done so as the president-elect and his deputies have promised a more sophisticated and less error-prone operation this time.
Washington’s attorney general-elect, Nick Brown, has been reading up on how key legal doctrines such as standing have shifted since the first Trump administration. The day after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta asked his staff to draft potential strategies for how his state could challenge a national abortion ban.
Democrats are anticipating sharp battles over mass deportation, abortion access, the environment and consumer protection, among other issues. Compared to Trump’s 2016 campaign, the president-elect and his allies have been “a little bit more predictable with specifics,” Bonta said.
“We expect him to do what he says,” added Bonta, who was in the California legislature during the first Trump presidency. “We’ve been through this once at 1.0 and understand a lot of the places where he broke the law.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2024
Hey! FReepers!
Help Fill The Tank!
How About It? Huh?
It Ain't Askin' Too Much
Ya Know....
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Gearing up for the Demodogs to lose the midterms
2 posted on 12/29/2024 7:04:25 AM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is why extreme far-left Feral “judges” are so important to the RAT turd rollers. The bass turds have weaponized the judicial system. It’s a joke.
3 posted on 12/29/2024 7:06:18 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (With a Congress that half of which is made up of foreigners and refugees, why do we need a U.N.?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Lawfare needs to go both ways. Destroy the lives of these attorneys. And their families. Bankruptcy and jail time. If they turn out to be innocent of ... whatever ... we can find out in 5 years or so. The important thing is to charge them with something and keep them on defense. We now have trillions of dollars we can use to ruin them.
To: ClearCase_guy
“Lawfare needs to go both ways. Destroy the lives of these attorneys. ... “
Naw, “Republicans” are too busy fighting amongst themselves.
5 posted on 12/29/2024 7:14:50 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
