California State Governor Gavin Newsom before a meeting in Sacramento, CA, May 31, 2020. (Photo: Matt Gush/Shutterstock)
Gov. Newsom’s One-Sided Rivalry With President-Elect Trump
Newsom’s special session to fight Trump
By Katy Grimes, December 2, 2024 8:11 am
As California Governor Gavin Newsom prepares to “Trump-proof” the state against President-elect Donald Trump’s anticipated policies, his stunt is getting meh reviews.
Perhaps before Newsom gets too full of himself, he should at least acknowledge that millions more Californians rejected his and Democrats’ dangerous Anti-American agenda, the Globe suggested last month. Yes, even California is not nearly as blue as it once was, thanks to Gavin Newsom.
The people are exhausted from Newsom’s headline-grabbing exploits and state overreach, while ignoring legitimate issues impacting 39 million California residents including the high cost of living, highest-in-the-country gas prices, high income taxes, high electricity costs, high food costs, crappy public schools, high unemployment, unfunded pension debt, and budget deficits in nearly every city and county as well as the state budget.
Newsom called a special session of the Legislature to grab another $25 million that the state doesn’t have so Attorney General Rob Bonta can spend more time and taxpayer money to litigate and “defend” California’s problematic policies, regulations and laws against Trump.
The day after the Trump trounced Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, Newsom reacted.
“The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack — and we won’t sit idle,” Newsom said in a statement. “We are prepared to fight in the courts.”
It’s easy to “fight in the courts” when spending taxpayer funds and headlines.
California’s problematic policies include Newsom threatening police with the loss of their pensions should they assist immigration agents with deportations of criminal illegal aliens.
Expect lawsuits against Newsom and Bonta from police unions. And more headlines.
President-elect Donald Trump vowed to the American people he will approve the “largest deportation program in American history,” prioritizing illegal aliens who have committed crimes in the US.
California has the distinct honor of harboring the country’s largest illegal alien population. Most of the media conflates these violent criminal aliens – many of them known gang and cartel members – with “immigrants,” as if legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants working in agriculture will be rounded up as well.
Democrat ghouls in the Legislature claim they are concerned about women who want abortions – they lie about Trump wanting a national ban on abortion. This is ironic since Trump was president when the US Supreme Court overturned the federal Roe v. Wade, sending the abortion issue back down to individual states for policy. Ironically again, since the number of performed abortions has only increased since the SCOTUS decision.
The other big issue is California’s meaningless but very costly fight against “climate change.” Democrats claim Trump’s reelection means California’s climate change policies are threatened anticipating that the incoming administration will undermine Newsom’s executive order outlawing internal combustion vehicles, and requiring all electric vehicles by 2035.
Newsom should be concerned. California’s power to regulate vehicle emissions and influence the rest of the country is dodgy. The Obama-granted waiver from the EPA to the California Air Resources Board in 2013 allowed the state to set stricter clean air rules than the federal government’s. The result has been California dictating clean air and vehicle emissions policy for more than a third of the U.S. auto market.
In 2019, the Trump administration announced that it would revoke this waiver that allowed California to set its own standards for automobile emissions.
Trump said the action will result in vehicles that are safer and cheaper, and that “there will be very little difference in emissions between the California standard and the new U.S. standard,” NPR reported.
Head’s exploded at the California Air Resources Board. “The federal claims regarding California’s waiver are bogus,” the CARB said. “The federal government is abandoning years of precedent and facts to attempt to revoke the waiver, but these claims make no sense.”
You can see where this is going, and most Californians can’t wait for Newsom and his climate change minions to get another comeuppance. Forcing Californians into electric cars is not an issue voters approved, nor have ever expressed an interest in.
“During the last Trump administration, California spent about $42 million on 122 lawsuits challenging federal policies, according to Newsom’s office,” the SF Chronicle reported. Will Newsom be back asking the Legislature for another Trump litigation war chest once he’s blown through the $25 million that the state doesn’t have suing the Trump administration?
What a waste – Newsom lost many of the lawsuits last time around, and California had nothing to show for it. And his new budget has a sizable deficit… $2Billion and counting.
California has the cleanest air in the entire country. So why is Newsom and the CARB continuing to spend billion$ on it?
I’m sure the Trump EPA will have answers.
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By the US Constitution the first stop concerning litigation between states and between states and the federal government is the US Supreme court. None of this filing in district court, stalling and playing legal games for years while an issue works upward through endless appeals and profligately wasting a mountain or two of cash on endless litigation… The Trump administration should force Newsom to take his blizzard of lawsuits straight to the Supreme Court per the Constitution, and I will guarantee that SCOTUS will get very tired of Newsom’s voluminous and frivolous crap in a very short period of time.
If this is the case, this would be the relevant section:
US CONSITUTION: Article. III.
Section. 2.
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;— between a State and Citizens of another State,—between Citizens of different States,—between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make…
Gavin “Hair-gel Hitler” Newsom is trying to implement the agenda of his paymasters (i.e. cartels, CCP, WEF globalists, etc.) whether most Californians want it or not?
“California’s problematic policies include Newsom threatening police with the loss of their pensions should they assist immigration agents with deportations of criminal illegal aliens.”
If local police are being told that Newscum will deny pensions if they follow federal law and co-operate with federal ICE deportations, a couple of questions come to mind. (1) Is this an empty threat or can Gruesome actually do this against the police unions? (2) If Gruesome Newscum actually does enforce this and the police follow his orders blocking ICE, why is this NOT obstruction of justice? Even some of the other looney leftists like Kathy Hochul (NY) are changing their tune regarding mass deportation.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/11/hochul-ill-be-first-call-ice-deport-immigrants-accused-crimes/401333/.
Newsom go home to your $9 million mansion, and stay there for the rest of your term. You are complete failure as a governor. How can any governor only create 5400 private sector jobs in two and a half years, while the rest of the country created 7.3 million? Just shut up and stay out of sight. We don’t need any more of your BS.
I don’t think it is possible to express just how SICK and TIRED and DONE I am with this guy.
And I am CLEARLY not alone. Seems as though EVERYONE has had (more than) enough.
I’m with you, Protect Freedom, he needs to go home to the newly-purchased $9M mansion, stop bothering us with his yammering, and stay out of sight for the foreseeable future.
Raymond not all Police & Sheriffs’ pensions are connected with Cal Pers. There are 20 counties that operate a1937 Act Pension plan which are out of the immediate reach of Newsom. I’m sure that there are several “Red” sheriffs here in California that will assist with depurations. I still believe that Newsom has legal exposure for activities that exceed the scope of his authority that will qualify him a much smaller future living space than his 9-million-dollar mansion. Newsom is not on solid footing and is losing the clout that he had prior to the election. Newsom’s days in office are numbered.
Hal, since the sheriffs are elected officials their actions will usually reflect their constituent voting patterns. I say usually, but not always. We have a sheriff who seems to believe that rules for everyone else don’t necessarily apply to her. She has been stopped by CHP several times, repeatedly driving 95mph on her way to work…not on a call. Of course, she is never cited. This sends the wrong message to the voters and she now has a PR problem. The blue-red differences in COVID lock down policy and enforcement shows that Newscum’s wishes will be followed in blue areas where most of the illegals are kept and feel safe. This is where the Newscum-Trump confrontations will occur. Red areas don’t have illegal problems to the same degree. I would actually like to see this confrontation happen and Newscum in handcuffs and booked.
Thank you Katy for yet another good one. Interesting that on one hand we have excess solar (during the day) and the Gov wants all electric vehicles. Most folks charge their vehicles at night, so will the Gov require charging during solar times to avoid shutting down or otherwise disposing of excess solar watts. Maybe we are in “regulation constipation” and should let the market run the lights.