California State Senate. (Photo: Kevin Sanders for California Globe)
Trump Derangement Syndrome Torments the California Legislature
Assemblyman DeMaio takes lawmakers to the woodshed for lecturing the Federal Government while ignoring its own illegalities
By Katy Grimes, July 23, 2025 8:00 am
The California Legislature just demonstrated how unaware of public sentiment it is once again, by passing SCR 66 by Senator Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana), which “designates May 1st as Law Day, to not only commemorate the importance that law plays in California, but to stand in solidarity with the legal community.”
While that sounds like another banal resolution, this is rich given that every year the California Legislature passes many laws that violate the U.S. Constitution, and the Constitutional rights of Californians.
This is the real purpose of the Senate Resolution:
“Enumerates the multiple ways in which executive orders and other actions taken by President Donald Trump have threatened the rule of law, including, among other things, by denying security clearances and federal contracts to law firms that have opposed his administration. The resolution also accuses the President of using the power of the presidency to deter law firms from representing clients and immigration cases and calling for the impeachment of judges who have ruled against President Trump or his interests.”
Because TRUMP!
These are the same people demanding “tolerance” of the rest of us while pushing biological males who pretend they are women, competing in girls’ sports, and looking the other way while Jewish students in California’s universities and colleges are terrorized, harassed, targeted and shunned by professors and pro-Hamas students.
This is a classic case of Democrat Assembly members’ and Senators’ projection. Projection is when we take feelings we don’t want to acknowledge in ourselves, like jealousy or anger, and we “project” them onto someone else – In this case, Donald Trump. It’s an unconscious way of coping with emotional conflict and discomfort, according to the American Psychological Association. People project to protect themselves from uncomfortable inner conflict and anxiety, but psychologists say the behavior can interfere with various relationships and situations.
Pot, meet kettle.
California Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) called out the duplicity of his colleagues.
DeMaio said, SCR 66, “offered by legislators who have so routinely violated the law, in their own actions, to sit here and say ‘we’re going to pass a resolution and lecture the federal government on all of their missteps on the rule of law, it’s quite rich.”
DeMaio recounted examples of executive orders and bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to violate the Constitutional rights of Californians, passing laws the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned on the 2nd Amendment, only to have the Legislature pass the same laws again – an affront to our judicial system.”
“Or, a law that says if we don’t like what you put on social media, we’re going to arrest you… we’re going to prosecute you. Of course, that was completely overturned by a judge as a violation of the First Amendment.
“Or, how about the faith-based crisis pregnancy centers who were told by this Legislature in 2018 ‘violate your religious beliefs and promote the practice of abortion.’ It’s not the role of the Legislature to compel churches to embrace abortion.
“I could go into Covid. I could go into the recent federal court cases that overturned laws passed by this Legislature, this governor, that stripped parents of their 14th Amendment due process rights under the federal Constitution.
“First year law students read the laws that I’ve just referenced and they’re embarrassed. A first year law student would recognize the constitutional problems with these laws. But this Legislature doesn’t learn because it doesn’t care.
“They basically tell Californians ‘tough.’
“‘Sue us, because at least for the next 12 to 14 months we’re going to deprive you of your Constitutional rights. We’re going to lost in court, but for the next year, we’re going to strip you of your rights.”
De Maio said sometimes he assumes the intention (of a bill) is good, but “for this Legislature to try to weigh in on the rule of law, I think silence is probably the best strategy, and perhaps some quiet contemplation of your own misdeeds over the years.”
The Globe has reported on many if not all of the gross violations of Californians’ constitutional rights passed by the California Legislature and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown before him. Brown even flippantly said “so sue me” when questioned by media about the legality of what he signed into law.
The resolution bill says that the California Senate and the Assembly concur in the following:
a) Issuing executive orders to silence opposition and chill legal advocacy is an unlawful attack on the right of Americans to seek counsel.
b) Using the office of the presidency as a bludgeon against those who uphold the law and disagree with the President’s position is not only an attack on the legal system but an attack on the rule of law.
c) The Legislature designates May 1 as Law Day to not only commemorate the importance that law plays in California but to stand in solidarity with the legal community.
The resolution also calls upon the Senate and Assembly to “stand in solidarity with the legal community,” citing in particular the unprecedented actions that President Trump has taken against various law firms – presumably for no other reason than that they have opposed the President in some way, or that they simply have policies which the President finds objectionable. The resolution also condemns President Trump’s statements calling for the impeachment of judges who “have ruled against him and his interests.” The author contends that these actions are not simply an attack on particular law firms and judges, but upon the legal system and the rule of law itself.
The California Legislature is upset because the President is going after law firms? Really? Shouldn’t they specify leftist law firms flaunting the Constitution and Rule of Law?
This may be the best part:
this resolution adds California’s voice to the long-standing federal commemoration of Law Day, in order to reaffirm our commitment to due process and the rule of law. This seems especially appropriate given that the President of the United States has taken unprecedented actions against private law firms for personal and political reasons, recklessly criticized and called for the impeachment of federal judges, and ignored both federal law and the principles of federalism in responding to mostly peaceful and locally controlled protests.
What alternate universe are we living in? Are we talking about the same California Legislature which has forced unwarranted vaccines on children just to attend school? The same California Legislature that requires schools to hide child gender transitioning from parents? The same California Legislature which allowed Governor Newsom to lock an entire state down for three years, destroy 1/3 of the businesses in the state, and shut down schools over a flu? The same California Legislature which allowed Governor Newsom to force untested vaccines, social distancing and mandatory masking on California’s citizens?
In 2015, a bill passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Brown targeted two of the largest fruit growers in the San Joaquin Valley for forced unionization by rewriting the definition of the labor rules governing piece-rate compensation in California. Both companies were targets of United Farm Workers unionizing efforts, and the Legislature and Governor illegally assisted the UFW – blatantly illegal.
Or when in 2022 Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green tossed out California’s corporate diversity law to require publicly held corporations based in the state to include racial minorities and members of the LGBTQ community on their executive boards, ruling it “unconstitutional.”
Or more recently when Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative Democrats had 10 years to deal with escalating crime because of Prop. 47, but failed to do so until Proposition 36 qualified for the November 2024 ballot overturning Prop. 47, and was passed by every county in the state. And now Gov. Newsom will not fund Prop. 36, flaunting his disdain for the will of the people.
Or when the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Constitutionality of bail, but California lawmakers still tried to destroy California’s bail system. The California Legislature ignored the Supreme Court decision and passed Senate Bill 10, arguing that the current bail system was unfair to low income people.
We can go on for days as the California Legislature passes illegal and unconstitutional laws every year. Assemblyman DeMaio is spot on to call out his hypocrite colleagues. They are projecting their own inadequacies and insecurities, as well as their legal exposure, and should be primaried in every upcoming race for re-election.
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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This is key:
Quoting Asm Demaio – “‘Sue us, because at least for the next 12 to 14 months we’re going to deprive you of your Constitutional rights. We’re going to lose in court, but for the next year, we’re going to strip you of your rights.”
It is also another page in the dictator playbook. By having the bad, unconstitutional bill stand as law for a rather long period of time, they DO succeed in chilling, say, our freedom of speech. An example would be when, during Covid, they threatened to strip physicians of their medical licenses with a bill that would outlow physicians giving certain taboo advice or medications to patients, even if the advice was the truth and/or the medications worked. A lawsuit eventually overturned the law but if you went to the doctor you wouldn’t have known it. Physicians’ freedom speech had been successfully chilled. They feared the loss of their livelihoods and status.
And this is why they hate Trump so much and writhe with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Trump is one of a class of very very few who have a spine of steel and who never, ever give up. The modern Dem-Marxist politicians know that when such a person remains in power their goose is cooked. Both individually and as a political party.
By the way, we shouldn’t credit these CA legislative idiots with originality in these schemes because they are merely copying a malevolent playbook that preceded their existence.
It’s Stunning! The Democrats complete disregard for the “Rule of Law” and then passing a bill creating “Law Day” in California. Are we residing in Oceania, and this is newspeak?
The nutjobs in Sacramento are constantly passing laws that are quickly slapped down in the courts for violating laws and the constitution. This is literally the pot calling the kettle black. Nobody is more eager to ignore laws than the Democrats are. Also, since when does a president have to give security clearances to third-party organizations that actively seek to undermine his administration (as admitted to in the text of these nonsense “resolution”)? On what planet does that even make sense?
Otakuon – Exactly.
There is no such planet in our solar system —– or in the universe —– where that makes sense.
I am not surprised by this at all.
Those in the leftist supermajority have a very narrow world view and live in a bubble. They are protected by that groupthink. It is their messed up reality, you could tell them exactly what Assemblyman DeMaio pointed out and it does not matter, they are bought in. It really is a form of mental illness! The asylum patients taken over!
Why have a sane and coherent approach to policy when you have Trump to hate? Trump throws a monkey wrench into the communist long march to the “worker’s paradise.” Right after Trump won the 2016 election, a couple of communist websites, one prominent and long established, stated that the goal to change the form of government was put on hold in order to obstruct Trump, I saw it with my own eyes. Right away House Speaker Pelosi began chanting “we must obstruct Trump!” and the call spead through the land amongst our resident trotski-ists. So it is in Sacramento.
“The California Legislature just demonstrated how unaware of public sentiment it is once again”… I don’t think it’s so much that the super majority is unaware of public sentiment as they are true believers in their secular marxist religion, and like fanatical, “fundamentalist” killers in the middle east they don’t care what anyone thinks except to punish dissenters for being infidels. They are driven by cultivated hate, you can’t reason with them, and they will tell the most outrageous of lies with the straightest of faces.
Trump Derangement SYNDROME is real, and infects much of California governance, starting with Newscum and his San Franfreakshow values-based Mayorship, his Weinstein-trollop wife’s non-profit gay and porno-video grift business, and extends to the first “openly gay” legislature-fail-upwards Insurance Commissioner, to Scott Weiner, Buffy Wicks, Nanncy “E.T.” Skinner and a host of other rainbow-flag waving “community organizers” in the California legislature.
These special-interests pols and their limited worldview are governing for the benefit of the vocal minority, to the detriment of the silent majority.
Sad (and pathetic) but true….
I agree with all of the comments made above. Trump Derangement Syndrome is not a temporary alignment of political sides that can be cured or mitigated by any kind of success that DJT provides to this country. TDS is a permanent condition; a mental/psychological illness that is not curable for the afflicted. There is nothing that can be done for these people short of electric shock treatment to erase their memories. Just listen to these people talking to each other and you will see TDS in action:
https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/david-petraeus-susan-rice-and-john-bolton-on-us-foreign-policy/661775
TDS is the FEAR that criminals and traitors have that they are going to face Justice soon.
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Meanwhile, deep inside a vast NG(D)O digital assisted citizen sausage stuffer complex, liberal monitor lizards sacro-mentally plot to centuple their votes in glazed uno-vision.
NORCAAD.D/O 2025
And btw, today the 9th Circuit Late Court reluctantly handed Robby and the Guber dunce hats, and sent they/them/their to the constitutional 2A correctional and rehablitation corner.
Rehabligation corner.
Carl De Maio is the only bright spot in the corrupt and deranged California legislature. I am constantly amazed by the democrats and Newscum who totally push bills and view points that defy common sense and the will of majority.
To the author: Didn’t you mean “Trump Derangement Syndrome” not “System”?
Agree 100% except for the “primaried” part. They should all be hanged as traitors to the state and country. Communists should never be tolerated in any form.