New Timp rental – Los Angeles Times

Sacramento – Give Governor Gavin Newsom Credit. You can call her grandmother and opportunistic, But the president of the Trump prosecution on prices was intelligent, daring and very necessary.

Of course, it was political. Newsom jumped with skillfully before other contenders for the potential presidential election in 2028 by targeting the allegedly illegal actions of Trump on the prices.

Someone needed to request a court decision on the issue of whether the president can raise prices himself without approval from the congress.

Republican leaders of Congress – Republican politicians in general – are too intimidated by their president to sneeze without his blessing. They gently gave their co-egal legislative power to the president. And it’s worrying for democracy.

This is self-service. Republican members of the Congress who must survive the primaries of the GOP to gain the re -election of the fear of going to the bad side of the avenger president and of being “primary”.

“Where is the devil is the congress?” Where is Devil the president (Mike) Johnson? Do your job! ” Newsom proclaimed during the announcement of his trial last week in an almond orchard near Ceres in the San Joaquin valley rich in agriculture.

“They are sitting there passively (like Trump) disturbs the economy of the United States.”

In fact, Newsom seemed to crash Atty. General Rob Bonta’s party.

Newsom and Bonta jointly filed the trial before the San Francisco American district court. But Bonta – often working with prosecutors General Democrats from other states – had already deposited 14 prosecution contesting Trump policies. Bonta staff had spent a lot of time writing pricing before Newsom was published publicly as a applicant.

“The president acts as if he were above the law. He is not,” said Bonta before presenting Newsom to the almond farm. “Congress has the duty to set taxes, rights and, yes, prices.”

For Newsom and California, To relax Trump in court is a bit risky. The president threatened to retaliate against California by retain federal funds If state policies are conflict with its own. This includes money to help rebuild sections ravaged by Los Angeles fire.

It is not only an inactive threat, as Trump showed in the restoration of the federal funds promised for universities and the firms of strong lawyers who have opposed him in judicial affairs.

But as most of us have learned it as a child, you have to resist a tyrant. And that’s what Newsom did.

“Without a doubt, Trump will give nothing of California anyway,” said David Townsend, a democratic political consultant. “This is a good political decision by Newsom to position itself as anti-Trump on a solid political question.

“All democratic voters are looking for a strong anti-Trump leader.”

Ok, then Newsom reads tea leaves and realizes that many people are demanding a crusader to carry the fight against Trump’s policies.

This was demonstrated the day before Newsom’s announcement when Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez – Two Democratic Socialists on the East Coast – attracted nearly 30,000 people during an anti -Trump rally in a republican congress district near Sacramento.

An essential ingredient of democracy is the elected officials who follow the will of citizens. And that’s clearly what Newsom is now trying to do on prices.

“I can’t imagine anything more unifying” for California than challenging Trump on prices, said Newsom. “We hoped we didn’t need to follow this path. But we are (we are) ready to take this path. ”

The “illegal prices of Trump write chaos on Californian families, businesses and our economy – increase prices and threaten jobs,” Newsom said in a prepared statement.

The trial represents a change in Newsom’s strategy to Trump. Previously, he was practically silent, apparently trying to play well to avoid the anger of Trump which could cost federal money in California for help in the event of a disaster, higher education and media health care.

Compare this tactic on the sweet language with another announcement from Newsom last week by revealing a legal action contesting Trump cuts on the American services program in California.

“We have gone from New Deal, the new border and the big company to a federal government which gives adults to volunteers serving their American colleagues,” said Newson in a prepared statement.

Major? Not exactly the jargon of traditional governor. But no bureaucratic bull either.

Governors would not generally deposit a judicial case contesting the foreign policy of a president. But it is not like pursuing Trump for having contracted Russian President Vladmir Putin, perforating our European alliances or strangely threatening to grasp Greenland. On prices, California has a judicial “position” as a injured victim.

“No state is about to lose more than California,” said Newsom.

“We are talking about stupidity,” said Newsom. “This (price action) is the child of the poster for this.”

Newsom noted that California’s gross domestic product was $ 3.9 billions in 2023, which was 50% larger than that of the following state, Texas. If it were a country, it would be the fifth largest economy in the world.

We are the main farming producer in the country and there are more than 36,000 manufacturing companies employing 1.1 million people.

China, Mexico and Canada – Special tariff targets for Trump – provide more than 40% of California’s foreign imports. These are also the three main export countries. In all, California imported $ 491 billion in products last year and exported $ 183 billion.

What the prices are added is an economic slowdown expected in California which will cost the tax revenues of the State government and will stimulate the budget more deeply in Red Ink. This will come from the collapse of companies based on foreign imports or exports – exacerbated by a reduction in consumption expenditure as prices increase, from food to cars.

Although Newsom and Bonta insist that Trump cannot impose prices without consent of the congress, this is not a clear case. Trump’s friendly supreme court will undoubtedly decide.

Newsom did the right thing by being the first governor to request a response to the court.

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Until next week,
George Skelton

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