Democratic states brace for Trump by launching defense of Biden policies

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Source: Yahoo! News/Reuters

Updated Thu, January 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM EST


(Reuters) -Democratic states' attorneys general launched a legal bid this week to defend Biden administration policies on immigration, the environment and guns, just days before Donald Trump takes office on Monday. Trump has vowed to deport millions of people who are in the country illegally, roll back environmental rules and sweep away Biden transgender policies.

His Republican Party controls Congress, as it did when Trump took office in 2017 for his first term. On Wednesday, AGs from more than a dozen states, including California, New Jersey and Michigan, asked a federal judge to let them take on the role of defending a Biden rule providing health insurance to immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

A group of Republican attorneys general had sued in August to block the rule and the case was being defended by the Department of Justice. "These are really important rules that protect or benefit our residents, and there's a strong likelihood that (Trump's) department of justice won't defend them," New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin told Reuters.

Similar coalitions of AGs moved to intervene in cases to defend Biden rules related to the environment, gun dealers and devices known as "forced reset triggers" that allow firearms to fire more rapidly.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-states-brace-trump-launching-205941702.html

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1. Blue State Alliance

The OP is a good post. Here is a re-post of another thread that I started elsewhere. It might be relevant.--

Blue State Alliance

I know there has been a lot of sadness that Joe Biden is leaving and fear and despair that Trump is coming in. It is understandable. That said, we have to stick together and fight. I have been encouraged by how Governor Gavin Newsom has been preparing the California government to resist the worst excesses of the incoming Trump Regime.

California has the biggest government in the country after the Federal government. New York's state government is the biggest one after that. Both are predominantly Blue States run by Democratic Governors. Other important states run by Democratic Governors include Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Colorado, Arizona, Kentucky, and North Carolina.

Part of what we need to do to resist Trump and MAGA is to have a coordinated alliance between these Governors and these Blue States. We need these state governments to act as a countervailing force to the incoming Trump Regime. They need to work together where they can, almost to act as an alternative government to the Trump Government. A Blue State Alliance.

So this is one way to resist Trump and his MAGA Gang. There are many other things that we can do, including fighting destructive Trump policies in the courts, countering MAGA propaganda in the media, and mobilizing for the next elections. We have several tools in our tool box. We need to work together and keep our fighting spirits up. Trump and MAGA can be resisted and we can find ways to effectively fight back. We may be able to win in the next election cycle, and then take the White House back in 2028. Stay strong!