{"id":123308,"date":"2024-11-08T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123308"},"modified":"2024-11-08T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:00:11","slug":"california-governor-calls-special-session-to-protect-liberal-policies-from-trump-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123308","title":{"rendered":"California governor calls special session to protect liberal policies from Trump presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mee8q00003b6mux42uizm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>Sacramento, California (AP) \u2014<\/strong> California\u2019s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, on Thursday called for lawmakers to convene a special session later this year to safeguard the state\u2019s progressive policies on climate change, reproductive rights and immigration ahead of another Trump presidency.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw00033b6mfe13y1vq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The move \u2014 a day after the former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/06\/politics\/trump-wins-election\/index.html\">resoundingly defeated <\/a>Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race \u2014 effectively reignited California\u2019s resistance campaign against conservative policies that state Democratic leaders started during the first Trump administration.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw00043b6mpgr3tiga@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack \u2014 and we won\u2019t sit idle,\u201d Newsom, who reportedly has ambitions on the national stage, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2024\/11\/07\/special-session-ca-values\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. \u201cCalifornia has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond. We are prepared to fight in the courts, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw00053b6mswytvvw7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Newsom\u2019s office told The Associated Press that the governor and lawmakers are ready to \u201cTrump-proof\u201d California\u2019s state laws. His announcement Thursday called on the Legislature to give the attorney general\u2019s office more funding to fight federal challenges when they meet in December.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw00063b6mx4r632y1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            California\u2019s move is part of a growing discussion among Democratic state officials across the country seeking to protect policies that face threats under Trump\u2019s leadership. Other blue states are also moving quickly to prepare game plans and expect a fiercer battle this time around with a Republican-dominated Senate and possibly House.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw00073b6m8r41l3zf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James said senior staffers plan to meet regularly to coordinate legal strategies.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw00083b6mvgpk4vv8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cOur team will do whatever we have to do to identify any possible threats to these rights that we hold dear in the State of New York and protect New Yorkers,\u201d Hochul said at a news conference Wednesday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw00093b6m6tkcv7uk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Hochul said she has created a task force focused on developing policy responses to \u201ckey areas that are most likely to face threats from the Trump administration\u201d such as \u201creproductive rights, civil rights, immigration, gun safety, labor rights, LGBTQ rights and our environmental justice.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000a3b6mswsnwgdz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who as state attorney general filed dozens of lawsuits against Trump during his first term, said they will \u201chave to see if he makes good on what he promised and ran on in terms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/05\/politics\/the-trump-administrations-most-frequent-courtroom-foes-are-preparing-a-legal-war-against-his-second-potential-term\/index.html\">Project 2025<\/a> or other things.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000b3b6mvu5xl1ga@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Attorney General Andrea Campbell said she and other attorneys general are \u201cabsolutely cleareyed that president-elect Trump has told us exactly what he intends to do as president.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000c3b6mvra0rc42@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In Chicago, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said he\u2019s working with other governors to find ways to bolster reproductive rights, among other things.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000d3b6mfl17rvy7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cChaos, retribution and disarray radiated from the White House the last time Donald Trump occupied it,\u201d Pritzker said at a Thursday news conference. \u201cPerhaps this time may be different. But if it isn\u2019t, Illinois will remain a place of stability and competent governance.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000e3b6mlge1dfml@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            After Trump\u2019s win, Newsom vowed to work with the president-elect but added, \u201cLet there be no mistake, we intend to stand with states across our nation to defend our Constitution and uphold the rule of law.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000f3b6mzda8yc73@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            California was home to the so-called Trump resistance during his time in office, and Trump often depicts California as representing all he sees wrong in America.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000g3b6mibuds86y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump called the Democratic governor \u201cNew-scum\u201d during a campaign stop in Southern California last month and has relentlessly lambasted the Democratic stronghold and nation\u2019s most populous state over its large number of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, its homeless population and its thicket of regulations.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000h3b6mk82yuik6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump also waded into a water rights battle over the endangered delta smelt that has pitted environmentalists against farmers and threatened to withhold federal aid to a state increasingly under threat from wildfires.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000i3b6mlvrevmxi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a speech Wednesday morning, Trump vowed to follow through with his campaign promise of carrying out the mass deportation of immigrants without legal status and prosecuting his political enemies.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000j3b6mma928nvn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Democrats, which hold every statewide office in California and have commanding margins in the Legislature and congressional delegation, outnumber registered Republicans by nearly 2-to-1 statewide and Harris easily carried the state in her losing presidential bid.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000k3b6m8ba0p18h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Newsom and Democratic lawmakers said they are acting now to shield the state\u2019s policies that have made it a leader in the nation.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000l3b6m6u1hxc0n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe learned a lot about former President Trump in his first term \u2014 he\u2019s petty, vindictive, and will do what it takes to get his way no matter how dangerous the policy may be,\u201d state Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire said in a statement. \u201cCalifornia has come too far and accomplished too much to simply surrender and accept his dystopian vision for America.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000m3b6mhqeoalhm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Newsom has called California a sanctuary for people in other states seeking abortions. The state has passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/27\/politics\/california-abortion-protection-package-signed-law-newsom\/index.html\">dozens of laws<\/a> to protect abortion access, including setting aside $20 million in taxpayer money to help pay for patients in other states to travel to California to get an abortion. Newsom also leads a coalition of 20 Democratic governors launched in 2023 to strengthen abortion access.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000n3b6mfzpl8r2r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The state was also the first to mandate that all new cars, pickup trucks and SUVs sold in California be electric, hydrogen-powered or plug-in hybrids by 2035 and give state regulators the power to penalize oil companies for making too much money. California also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/10\/politics\/california-gavin-newsom-medicaid-coverage-undocumented-immigrants\/index.html\">extends state-funded health care<\/a> to all low-income residents regardless of their immigration status.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000o3b6m4saheyjs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            State Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office spent the past year reviewing more than 120 lawsuits the state filed during Trump\u2019s first term in preparation of new federal actions.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000p3b6my607jq93@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            With Trump\u2019s White House win and California\u2019s assumed role in leading the renewed resistance movement, Newsom also is bound to be elevated onto the short list of any presidential consideration for 2028, Sonoma State University political science professor David McCuan said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000q3b6mfwrgdpww@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The governor, who won\u2019t be eligible to run for governor again when his term ends in January 2027, will have the next two years to prove himself as an effective GOP antidote while maintaining a working relationship with the president-elect.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm37mf2iw000r3b6mc46df7du@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cHe wants to be seen as a political revivalist, and so that puts him front and center,\u201d McCuan said.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/07\/politics\/california-governor-special-session-trump-presidency\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, California (AP) \u2014 California\u2019s Democratic Gov. 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