California Wants To Meet Trump In Court

California Democrats wasted little time in positioning the state as a counter to many of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promises, much as Texas has served as President Obama’s chief antagonist. “We are not going to allow one election to reverse generations of progress,” the state’s legislative leaders, Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon wrote in a statement released Nov. 9. “I think it’s important to think about what California will do if this is a systematic and deeply conservative administration, pushing it in directions it doesn’t want to go,” Cal Jillison, a political analyst and professor at Southern Methodist University, told the Los Angeles Times. “Taking a lesson from Texas and learning from the Texas strategy when it feels it is going the wrong way could be wise.” Of particular concern to California would be any changes to the Affordable Care Act, immigration reform, and steps away from climate change efforts. “If the president tries to inhibit what we’ve been trying to do, I’m more than happy to be antagonistic toward him,” Rendon said. “I would welcome that.