He’s Sued Trump 39 Times—and He Keeps Winning

For Americans who care about the rule of law, these are difficult times. Every day, the Trump administration shows its contempt for democratic norms. Only this month we saw the White House seemingly Production for corruption To remove the Federal Board Member of Lisa Cook, vindictive Deportation efforts Kilmar Abreg Garcia in Uganda, Flood Donald Trump with DC with Troops of the National Guard from the republican states, and suspension of Fema human rights defenders For the contradiction of the President on the danger of reducing the disaster preparation services.

We also saw the unusual degeneration of the policy language in the government. The Cabinet meeting this week was Exercise in the system I like what the world saw with the totalitarian regimes of the mid -century, but which the US had never witnessed before. It was so much that yes, so numerical-y, so grotesque despotically that one can only hope that each participant of this charad spends the rest of his unhappy life when nightmares about these three hours on August 26, 2025, during which they collectively fed the soul in crushed paper.

It did not sound like the secretaries of the cabinet, which frankly in a democratic, pluralistic setting; Rather, it was as if these minions desperately hoped to avoid sending an allylatator ancatrase either to make their nails on their feet, or what is another sadist vision that can create. These were scary, small people, more like Saddam Hussein’s stimulants than to the large US statesmen. It was a quintessence of a pathetic, pure distillation of mediocracy.

Trump, a toxic mushroom on the American dream he is on the military sensor against any person, organization or statement he sees how he stands on his way of full, unlimited power. To this end, he repeatedly had California in his sights: he launched the Federalized National Guard and the US Marine Infantry in the Los -Andgeles and urged the National Guard to go to Auckland. He repeatedly made his way into the Governorate Newspaper in the social media, demanded from the University of California system to pay $ 1 billion to receive federal dollars in the UCLA; And the US Department of Justice pushed the California court for its reorientation plan, which was certainly caused only by the unwavering and obvious requirement of Trump, so that Texas and other GOP states make their own rethinking to set up the results of the 2026 check results. Having an attack on the all -ly -ine and surrounding, he also has went after California grows infrastructure of the wind farm and strengthened it assault About plans for green transport.

Baking to look at all this and say: “The game is over, unpleasant, more and more inconspicuous, an orange man won.” But California Prosecutor General Rob Bonto, who uses courts to attempt to strengthen the administration, is surprisingly optimistic. His department has already sued the administration 39 times, having held California, to almost double the number of court laws that he filed against Trump 2.0 compared to Trump’s first term. In the lower courts, he received favorable rulings in most of these cases (19 out of 21, where rulings were issued), including the one that disputes Trump’s efforts to stop the birth of birth. And this week, California announced the victory In its lawsuit, aimed at preventing the Department of Education from maintaining billions of dollars already allocated the expenses of the states. The administration released the first part of these dollars in July and agreed to release the rest by October 1.

For the bonta that sat down with me To talk about the state of affairs earlier this week at the cafe near its office at the Sacramento Center, it is a testimony to the California strategy on offenses and lawsuits every time the administration goes beyond the law or the Constitution. “Unfortunately, we have a lawless federal administration where Trump is brazenly and brazenly, consistently and often violating the law,” the Attorney General told me. “And our commitment: if and when it violates the law or sharpen the Constitution, we will send it to court.”

The Bonta Cumulative Bonta believes that lawsuits led to a $ 168 billion scale, which the administration tried to abandon California – a stunning $ 5 million yield, which has so far spent the state’s justice department to draw up these cases. While the US Supreme Court pushed away from some applications in California or ordered the Bonta team to be transferred to other courts than those in which they initially filed, in many cases, Trump’s administration simply made as soon as California and other blue states made it clear that they would sue.

Like any bully, it turns out that the administration is wary of a fair struggle. “This happened when we had completed the financing of the Homeland Security Grant, which was due to assistance on the federal immigration measures to protect the immigration and the anti-immigration agenda,” Bonta said. “It also happened on the financing case of the education department”, in which the Trump team simply tried to ignore the financing formula adopted to finance things as ESL classes, as well as after school and summer school programs. California Prosecutor General together with 22 other democratic lawyers and two states, are suing the court to court. This is the case that has now been resolved completely in favor of California.

Bonta said he believed that today, the administration’s ugly actions, in the great large courts, contain a firm, and, although reluctant, Trump’s team complies with the court rulings. But, he said, he understood the threats. Officials of the administration, from the president down, go against the judges whose rulings they disagree and call for impeachment; Meanwhile, “incentives or cooperators” go out of the way to increase the level of political discourse decibel. “They are trying to talk to this idea that not all court rulings must obey – and it is very dangerous,” he said. “They talked about it more than it was done. But can it be done? You will need a few people to do it, but I’m not naive (enough) to think that it is impossible to do it.”

Bonto is especially scary in criticizing the deployment of the administration of the National Guard and the Marine Infantry in the Los Angeles. According to him, in response to the crisis and, drawing the military in the household bodies, he clearly violated the law on Comitatus. “They participated in the road execution and Immigration issues with ICE. They were laid and involved in 75 percent of ICE raids and immigration protection operations on their deployment days.”

Threatening to deploy military personnel in cities that are governed by a Democrat across the country, Bonta claimed that Trump “says a quiet part aloud.” The president, the Attorney General, said to me, “Saying he will violate the Comitatus law. He will receive an order of the court order in minutes if he tries to do it; he just can’t do it.”

In Trumplandia, this is a place that is inhabited by these degraded members of the Cabinet of Ministers, a great leader unmistakable. In reality, it is drowned out, growing a bandit. The more, the states such as California are pushing off its agenda, the more it is shown that the emperor lacks clothes. The damage he inflicts is a huge, but the result he is looking for-to-America is prone to his feet, as far as he was realized today, as it was during his first cruel and incompetent section in the White House. And that on these dark, dark days gives me the hope that the country can survive this full flowering of fascism mag.