Hello Thursday. Organic eggs are $9.99 for a dozen, and in Pennsylvania, invaluable people are stealing them. 100,000 eggs worth $40,000 have been robbed this weekanother one continues Seattle egg capers.

meanwhile, Denmark with dozen eggs under $5 offers to buy California (responding to President Trump’s hostile speech in Greenland), but I have to say that it doesn’t sound half bad.

If, like me, recent events felt you didn’t care much about all the conditions, today’s newsletter is the population of hope you’ve been waiting for.

I spoke to California Atty. Wednesday General Rob Bonta about many of him (Count four) Litigation against the Trump administration – to reduce birthright citizenship, federal grants, block Elon Musk and his teenage Titan from getting personal information and limit how universities pay for research. limits.

That’s far from the over 100 submitted by California Atty at the time. During Trump 1.0 General Xavier Beterra let it do for a while. We’ve only been playing Trump 2.0 for just three weeks.

Many are upset by the speed at which democracy appears to be falling apart, but Bonta has another view.

“I feel hopeful, optimistic and determined,” he told me. “We are proud of California and its role in major existential issues such as maintaining democracy.”

Authoritarianism, or worse, Musk-led siblings, may be our biggest fear. But Bonta said we weren’t there yet.

There’s been a lot of writing about Gov. Gavin Newsom, who’s with Trump recently. The Governor’s achievement is that he places people’s needs on his own ego (and we should not expect from politicians), but it’s still not easy. Newsom, a former leader of resistance to California’s Maga, is now mostly silent as the movement steams everything from civil rights to civil servants.

Speaking of Newsom, Bonta says the governor “walking and chewing gum at the same time” and “doing what he needs to do.” For that. ”

But Bonta is not under those restrictions as he is the state’s best lawyer and therefore does not exist directly on Trump’s trajectory. Like the Attorney Generals across the country, he suddenly becomes, whatever this confusion is, “at this moment it is one of the most important offices, potentially elected to an official position in the country. I realized that it was.

With that in mind, Bonta said, “In my position that the President of the United States must follow the law, it is absolutely impossible to negotiate, must follow the rule of law, must follow the Constitution.” I stated.

“Every action the president does when he crosses the line is there to stop him,” he said.

And so far, Bonta (along with colleagues and plaintiffs from other states) has not been very inadequate in the courts. New York Times counts at least 18 The ruling puts the brakes on Trump’s attack.

During Trump 1.0, themes emerged among many lawsuits. It’s like this regardless of what they were superficially about:

It sounds very boring, but it’s basically a law that even when you’re trying to burn the government, you have to follow certain rules. After all, Trump rarely followed the rules and rarely had a good legal debate over why it wasn’t. I asked Bonta if the same underlying issue was happening again, or if it appears that Trump’s administration has better organized this impasse.

“It’s a well-stated story about the Trump administration, he’s more skilled and he’s more familiar with it,” Bonta said. “To be honest, I haven’t seen it. I don’t mean that as a criticism. …Most of our cases are that the administrative procedures line up with constitutional violations, or dominant in themselves. “We will make components against it as a violation of no processes, notifications or comments.”

It’s good news for those hoping to push back the Maga movement, as many Trump attacks were stopped for the first time due to its chaotic approach. It may work on privately owned Twitter, but despite Musk’s thinking about bureaucracy, he doesn’t have the power to dismantle the US government as he thinks it’s appropriate.

Of course, this all depends on whether the Trump administration complies with court decisions. As I wrote in my column last week, Vice President jd vance And others say they think Trump should ignore the court’s ruling if they’re not in his favor.

“It’s a very dangerous statement by the Vice President,” Bonta said.

But unlike some (including myself), he doesn’t think we are still in a full-scale constitutional crisis.

“Everyone has a different threshold than a constitutional crisis,” Bonta said.

For him, it is “there are “clear and understood court orders that apply to certain actions of the Trump administration. And the Trump administration knows what the court orders are, and specifically, bravely And he denies it badly and says, “I know the court is ordering it. We’re not following the orders of the court. We’re going to do the opposite.” It’s – for me – my It’s a threshold and it’s not happening. ”

Although we are approaching. This week, a judge from Rhode Island ruled (If California is part of it) Trump has not fully complied with his orders and “improperly freezes federal funds and refuses to resume payments for allocated federal funds.”

Still, Bonta said he believes that even the most conservative Supreme Court, where some of these cases almost certainly land, will retain the judiciary and its power.

“I don’t think they’re rubber stamps in Trump’s position,” Bonta said of the High Court.

But he also sees the fight continues throughout the Trump presidency. He is one of the reasons he said he has already decided to step down from governor’s race in 2026.

“We will continue to see the Attorney General on the frontline here for the next four years. This is what we do. This is what we’re being called to do,” he said. I said that. “This is our job to protect the rule of law and to protect the constitution.”

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Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach trolled Elon Musk on the committee on Wednesday. It will let you decide whether it’s appropriate or not, but it’s definitely interesting.

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