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California governor says Trump administration waging war against state
Reuters ^ | 7 Mar 2018 | Sharon Bernstein

Posted on 03/07/2018 3:18:52 PM PST by mandaladon

SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump’s administration of declaring war on the most populous U.S. state, after the Justice Department sued to stop policies that protect illegal immigrants against deportation.

The Democratic governor made the charge shortly after Attorney General Jeff Sessions intensified the Republican administration’s confrontation with California. In a speech in the state capital, Sessions accused California of obstructing federal immigration enforcement efforts and vowed to stop the state’s defiance.

Sessions addressed a law enforcement group in Sacramento, a day after the Justice Department filed suit against California, Brown and the state’s Democratic attorney general over so-called sanctuary policies that shield illegal immigrants.

“California absolutely, it appears to me, is using every power it has - powers it doesn’t have - to frustrate federal law enforcement. So you can be sure I’m going to use every power I have to stop them,” Sessions, the top U.S law enforcement officer, said in his speech.

Brown called the attorney general’s trip to California a political stunt and his description of California’s laws a lie.

“Like so many in the Trump administration, this attorney general has no regard for the truth,” Brown told reporters, adding that the laws were crafted with input and support from California police chiefs. “This is basically going to war against the state of California.”

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: california; civilwar; trump
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To: gdzla

“When does California demand the handover of the Marine Corps Base at Camp Pendleton?”

What an interesting post. The leftists in California are wimps. That includes the left-wing law enforcement and the leftists in California cities.

In the LA riot back in 1992, the entire LA police force hopped in their squads and headed home to protect their families, leaving the ordinary California citizen to fend for themselves.

And I don’t see much hope for the leftist city dwellers, who hold their Glocks sideways, to attack and defeat the 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton.


81 posted on 03/07/2018 6:01:45 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: mandaladon

As a long time resident of California, I want AG Sessions to do a lot more than file a lawsuit against CA. It is past time for the AG to grow a pair of gonads and start bringing criminal charges against such vermin as the socialist mayor of Oakland. Then move on to others, possibly including the Moonbeam himself whose biggest mistake in life was quitting the seminary. He would have fit right in with the rest of the leftist, heretical Jesuits, including the top banana presently residing in a Vatican hotel.


82 posted on 03/07/2018 6:04:29 PM PST by CdMGuy
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To: TigersEye

California is bankrupt.

It cannot finance its war with the Feds. Maybe the Governer can send his bullet train to DC full of pot smoking soldiers.


83 posted on 03/07/2018 6:09:38 PM PST by TheNext
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To: mandaladon

If it is a war, Jerry, I am not fighting on California’s side. You aholes destroyed my state.


84 posted on 03/07/2018 6:11:07 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Governor Brown-stain
Insane
Brown-stain
Flush that doo-doo
Down the drain.

85 posted on 03/07/2018 6:15:08 PM PST by Songcraft ("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: mandaladon

Bring it on...the only guns you have are
illegal...California declares war....


86 posted on 03/07/2018 8:06:04 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: metmom; Foolsgold; celtic gal; vette6387; Sarah Barracuda; ZULU; SkyPilot; Forty-Niner; unkus; ...

First of all, it is NOT the citizens of the state of CA who enacted this sanctuary BS and they are NOT waging war against the USA!! They had no part in the decisions. The vermin responsible for this BS are the corrupt, amoral, treasonous political RAT feces who made the decisions. It is my opinion, these hacks were elected because of RAT voter fraud. Absolutely no one I know approves of these Liberal hacks. Only a Liberal moron would want criminal aliens running lose in the population. The RAT political hacks have security to protect their rectums. They don’t give a damn what happens to anyone else as long as they stay in office and have power over everyone else.


87 posted on 03/07/2018 8:06:20 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

The real first of all is that THE CITIZENS of California are responsible for everything the officials they elect do.


88 posted on 03/07/2018 8:07:56 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: mandaladon

Dear Mr. President,

Please nuke California from orbit, just to be sure.


89 posted on 03/07/2018 8:09:50 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Them mexicans in the legislature and their liberal puppets callout Reconquista


90 posted on 03/07/2018 8:12:14 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: CdMGuy

Here is the list for drawing up arrest warrants. Governor, AG president of the senate (who admitted he held the illegal half of his family sneak in and stay here) the speaker of the house, the mayors, chiefs of police and city council members of SF, Oakland, LA and Sacramento


91 posted on 03/07/2018 8:16:48 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: morphing libertarian

How do you figure that? I guess since Obama got elected, you’re responsible for all that he did too?


92 posted on 03/07/2018 8:23:25 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

You clearly don’t understand our form of government. if the majority votes to leave them in we all are responsible. We the people are always responsible. we got rid of a governor who was taking bribes and running the energy supply. If we vote for the liberals and they do liberal things we either remove them or vote next time for someone else. That’s the way it works here in America. How does it work where you live?


93 posted on 03/07/2018 8:25:47 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: mandaladon

Sessions has to go to a California federal judge. No way he wins as all the federal judges in California are as wacky as Jerry Brown. So then the appeals start and this thing is in the federal courts until a democrat is in the White House and the whole thing gets dropped. Better to just flood the state with federal immigration enforcement officers. Do high profile sweeps in every Latino congressional district and make sure everyone knows it is because Jerry Brown is an ass wipe. Raids at Dem campaign rallies would also be a good idea. Bust some heads while you are at it.


94 posted on 03/07/2018 9:20:20 PM PST by your other brother
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To: mandaladon

The big question is what will Californians do when the illegals start blowing things up?


95 posted on 03/07/2018 9:21:29 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: your other brother

>>flood the state with federal immigration enforcement officers. Do high profile sweeps in every Latino congressional district and make sure everyone knows it is because Jerry Brown is an ass wipe. Raids at Dem campaign rallies would also be a good idea. Bust some heads while you are at it.
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Yes, that is what needs to be done, and more. But for some reason, lol, I can’t envision him doing any of it. Judge Jeanine would do it, and it would be a thing of beauty to watch.

On Hannity tonight, Michelle Malkin said: “Go in and arrest the politicians who have clearly broken the law.”


96 posted on 03/07/2018 9:29:43 PM PST by Kalamata (Meat hooks for Tyrants)
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To: your other brother

After the state passed the law the feds threatening to send more officers so they could protect themselves without local back-up. Then they arrested a few hundred in the bay area and LA. So they made athwart and didn’t follow up.


97 posted on 03/07/2018 9:56:52 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: morphing libertarian

made a THREAT and didn’t follow up


98 posted on 03/07/2018 10:05:29 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: mandaladon

We follow The Constitution.

They follow The Communists.


99 posted on 03/07/2018 10:09:28 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: mandaladon

The CA Police Chiefs run the Federal Government?


100 posted on 03/07/2018 10:10:16 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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