California governor proposes $25 million war chest for legal fights with Trump By Reuters

By Judith Langowski

(Reuters) – California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday launched he is hunting for up to $25 million in extra funding for lawful fights with the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

The announcement came on the first day of a varied session of the California legislature dedicated to getting ready the liberal utter for the 2d time length of conservative Trump. If licensed by the legislature, the California Department of Justice and utter agencies would fetch the further funding for courtroom battles in areas akin to reproductive rights, environmental security and immigration.

“The recent litigation fund can assist safeguard extreme funding for pain reduction, properly being care, and other critical products and companies that millions of Californians rely on day-to-day”, the governor wrote in the proposal. He added the utter plans to “defend against unlawful federal actions that can maybe maybe maybe jeopardize now not handiest tangible resources and the utter’s economy” as properly as security of reproductive properly being care and civil rights.

The fights would possibly possibly maybe maybe also pressure the federal authorities to pay wished funding, Newsom said in a commentary, citing successful lawful skirmishes with the federal authorities throughout the first Trump administration.

California Attorney Recurring Rob Bonta, also a Democrat, said in a press convention, that his agency would workers up in an effort to react rapidly to Trump administration motion with motions for restraining orders and injunctions.

California spent $42 million to give a take to litigation in Trump’s first time length between 2017-2022. The utter filed over 120 lawsuits annoying Trump Administration actions.

The utter assembly also has launched funds geared in direction of conserving entry to abortion medicine and enforcing the Reproductive Privacy Act, Bonta said.

Newsom’s build of job expects the actual budget regulations to be signed into law earlier than Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

(reporting by Judith Langowski; modifying by Peter Henderson and David Gregorio)