California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday he will convene an emergency special legislative session to strengthen the blue state’s legal response to future attacks by the incoming Trump administration.
Newsom’s office said in a press release that the special session will focus on protecting “civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate action, and immigrant families.”
“California is ready to fight,” Newsom said on TV’s “X,” adding, “Whether it’s basic civil rights, reproductive freedom or climate action, we’re going to put the clock to work. We refuse to roll back and allow our values and laws to be attacked.”
His actions come a day after Newsom said he would “work with the next president.”
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California Governor Gavin Newsom (left) and President-elect Trump. (Getty | Associated Press)
A special session of Congress will convene on Monday, December 2nd.
Newsom is calling on the state Legislature to allocate more funding to the California Department of Justice and other state agencies with additional resources to pursue legal challenges.
“This funding will support the ability to immediately litigate and seek injunctive relief against unlawful federal lawsuits,” Newsom’s office said.
During Trump’s first term, Newsom filed more than 100 lawsuits against the federal government.
“We learned a lot about former President Trump in his first term,” said Mike McGuire, Democratic state Senate president pro tempore. He is a person who will stop at nothing to get his way.” In a statement.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has scheduled an emergency special session. (Tama Mario/Getty Images)
“California has come too far and accomplished too much to simply capitulate and accept his dystopian vision for the United States. That’s why we’re taking action and investing in legal defense.”
Meanwhile, state Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, a Republican, said the special session was “clearly just a political stunt,” calling it “a distraction from the significant losses for Democrats across California on Tuesday.” (State Senate, State Assembly, and U.S. House of Representatives) and on key ballot measures, including the defeat of Proposition 5 and the resounding victory of Prop. 36. ”
“Californians have made it clear that affordability is a top concern,” Jones said. “But Governor Newsom wants to give the attorney general a blank check to wage endless battles with the federal government — both literally and figuratively — even though he has created huge budget deficits. Even though our state is on fire.”
California, a haven for illegal immigrants, could be a target for the Trump administration, especially in light of Trump’s plan to mass deport illegal immigrants.
Mr. Newsom, a leader of the country’s progressive blueprint, is not the only Democrat preparing to give states support for Mr. Trump ahead of Inauguration Day.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James have prosecuted and smeared Trump for years, but now that Trump is back in the White House, they are against any possible “vengeance or retribution.” I vowed to fight back. .
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Hochul congratulated President Trump at a press conference Wednesday, while also calling out his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and his running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for “really raising issues that are very important to Americans.” He praised the hard-fought election campaign.
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“Let’s be clear: We respect the results of this election and intend to work with those who want to be partners in achieving our administration’s goals in the state, but that is not an agenda from Washington. “That doesn’t mean accepting New Yorkers’ rights that they have enjoyed for years,” Hochul said Wednesday.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
