Newsom Calls Special Session To Fight Trump’s Edicts

Politico reports:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling a special session of the Legislature to shore up the state’s legal defenses against President-elect Donald Trump, he announced Thursday. Newsom said Trump’s campaign statements and first-term policies on abortion, electric vehicles, immigration and disaster aid warranted immediate legislative powers ahead of lawmakers’ planned return to Sacramento.

“The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack — and we won’t sit idle,” Newsom said in a statement announcing the special session, which will start in Sacramento on Dec. 2. California served as a stronghold of the “resistance” to Trump during his first term, filing more than 120 lawsuits challenging the administration over its actions on air pollution, immigration, gun control, health care, union dues and other areas.

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California is ready to fight.

I just called an emergency special session to help bolster our legal resources and protect our state against any unlawful actions by the incoming Trump Administration.

Whether it be our fundamental civil rights, reproductive freedom, or climate… pic.twitter.com/fIBPKsehot

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 7, 2024