Located on top of Hollywood’s boulevard, it overlooks the iconic TCL Chinese Theater and masked wonders wandering around the walk of fame.

They consider their enemy – President Trump – to be stronger than ever. Now the Avengers agreed, and they were the “last fortress of defense” for the masses.

“The stakes weren’t high right now,” said Atty, New Jersey. General Matthew Platkin. “What we see is the scope and scale of illegal and unconstitutional activities that are not seen in American history, and the pace of illegal and unconstitutional activities.”

For the Democratic Lawyer General, the judicial alliance of the Political Action Committee of Progressive Top Police, the Hollywood Policy Conference plans the next move with a continuing barrage of litigation against the Trump administration It was an opportunity to do so.

Their stated purpose is to stop a constitutional crisis that many believe is already ongoing.

“This is just the beginning,” said Atty, Illinois. General Kwame Raul. “We talk every day about this attack on our Republic, this attack on the Constitution, and how we will fight against the attack on the rule of law.”

Delaware Atty. General Kathy Jennings pointed to calls coming from Trump supporters to ignore the president’s unfavourable court ruling to implement his agenda.

“I think it’s already a crisis,” Jennings said. “What if we’ve done everything we can and they haven’t followed yet? That’s an existential threat.”

Their hosts were more measured.

“I think our system is durable,” says California Atty. General Rob Bonta said. “We’re stress tested, but they’re durable.”

The AG is not looking for a fight, they insisted.

Still, in just three weeks since the second Trump presidency, 23 of the country’s most powerful lawyers joined in, bringing together over 60 cases brought against the CEO and his allies. I submitted at least six of them.

It wasn’t something Bill Locker had in mind when he helped form the Daga in a small cohort of like-minded AGs in 2002.

“When we first started, we were very reserved,” he said, “We were very reserved,” he said, taking office in 2007 nearly 30 years after his public life and now working for the law firm Brown Ludnick. The Attorney General said. “The democratic aspects usually require us to work together to overcome those obstacles.”

The Republican Attorney General had organized his own affinity group in the 1990s. Under former House Speaker Newt Ginrich, the GOP moved aggressively to make state offices more partisan and send cash to the Downballot race.

“I was one of a few people who thought there should be a counterpoint,” Locker said.

Republican lawyer general Assn. Did not respond to a request for comment.

The Democratic Association has remained quite lax, raising millions of millions a year until 2016 when the group moved to DC and hired full-time staff. During the next election cycle, it doubled what it did the previous year and quadrupled its annual take by 2015.

Last year, Douga pulled in nearly $20 million, from Steven Spielberg and American communications workers. Elon Musk’s X and Tiktok also contributed.

By February 2024, its members had already put in place a second Trump presidency plan. They cooperated with Project 2025, a 900-page policy manual written by Trump’s first graduates and other right-wing Wanks in the hopes that they might telegraph the administration’s early moves. did.

“We must always anticipate what may be a threat,” Mas Atty said. General Andrea Campbell. “We were ready so we were able to respond quickly.”

At the November policy meeting in Philadelphia, they strengthened their defenses. In California alone, it allocated $25 million to the “Trump Resistance” Bonta’s office.

“It would have been neglecting our duty to not spend the time we had prepared,” Platkin said.

In a Hollywood Conclave, dressed in silk ties and enamel pins, people’s lawyers are traded in jokes and warm embraces, even if ready to face existential threats.

“We’re really just friends as well as our colleagues,” Jennings said.

For many, meetings had a lasting sense of position.

“[During Trump’s first term] We didn’t feel we were losing three branches: the democratic system, the separation of power and the government,” Jennings said. “We feel we’re in that crisis right now, and it feels very different.”

One topic of discussion was how to defend the rule of law, leading their high principles to the earth.

“There was a collective passion [within DAGA] Campbell, Massachusetts AG, said: “It’s not only the constitution, it’s a contract between you and the government.”

Campbell said she and her colleagues strategically included the city of San Francisco in the challenge of the order that ends Trump’s birthright citizenship. They wanted to make a concrete connection with Wong Kim Ark, a San Francisco man whose 1898 Supreme Court lawsuit extended the right to immigrant children to the 14th amendment.

US District Judge Leo Sorkin ordered an order that was upheld in Boston on Thursday, which was already blocked by federal judges in Washington, New Hampshire and Maryland.

Daga members were sure they would win another early case in district court and win people who went on to the liberal circuits mostly filed.

“[Even] The Republican-designated judge stood up for the rule of law,” Jennings said. “It was the judge appointed by Reagan that made the decision in the birthright citizenship case. [in Washington] And it only took him 25 minutes to blatantly declare President Trump’s executive order unconstitutional. ”

However, the AG worried about what would happen if one of their challenges reached the Supreme Court.

“At some point, the US Supreme Court will soon be tested,” Mays said. “Does the US Supreme Court believe in the separation of power? Does the US Supreme Court believe in the rule of law? And the moment comes soon.”