Portland troop deployment ruling is Bonta’s latest win against Trump

It was late Sunday evening that President Trump was beaten by a loss of justice – again – by California.

No, judged a federal judge, Trump cannot order the California National Guard to invade Portland, Oregon at the request of California Atty. General Rob Bonta and others, the American district judge Karin Immergut expanded a temporary ban order which had prevented the Oregon National Guard from being used by the federal government. It now includes not only California’s troops, but troops from any state. At least for the next two weeks.

This is the kind of legal loss that Trump should be used to it, especially with regard to the Golden State. Since Trump 2.0 struck the White House this year with the 2025 project folded in its rear pocket, the state of California continued the administration 42 times, literally once a week.

Although many of these cases are still pending, California accumulates a series of victories that have restored more than $ 160 billion in funding and have at least slowed down (and in some cases have stopped) the flight of civil rights on issues, including citizenship citizenship and immigration policy.

“We won in 80% of cases,” said Bonta. “Whether it is a preliminary injunction or a temporary ban order, and more and more permanent final injunctions now after the case of the court of first instance.”

I take it. We all need positive news. I do not often write only on good, but in these strange days, it is useful to remember that the fight is always worth it when it comes to protecting our rights. And, despite the Supreme Partisan Court, the reason why we always stick to democracy is that the system still works, although like a 1978 Chevy with the doors that rusted.

While Governor Gavin Newsom made the face of California’s fights against Trump, adopting a pugnacious and daring attitude, especially on social networks, the day of the day, slugging in these battles is often carried out by Bonta and his team in the audience rooms across the country.

It is difficult to remember, but months ago, Newsom qualified the special session of the Legislative Assembly to give Bonta an allowance of $ 25 million to defend not only California but democracy. And at a time when many of us fear that the checks and the sales promised in the Constitution have proven to be a little more than happy illusions, Bonta has a message: the courts are (mainly) holding holding and the lawyers of California are not only fighting, they win.

“We can do things that governors cannot do,” said Bonta. “No role and no time was more important than this one.”

Bonta told me that he often hears that Trump does not take into account the courts, so “What is the interest of the dispute?”

But, he said, the administration has followed the decisions of the judges-so far. Although there have been cases, in particular around deportations, which strike at the door of anarchy, at least for California, Trump “follows all our judicial orders,” said Bonta.

“We make a difference,” he said.

A few days ago, the United States Ministry of Education was forced to send a final part of funds which he tried to hold schools. Bonta, in a trial in several states, successfully protected this money, which schools need this year to help migrant children and learners in English, train teachers, buy new technologies and pay for programs before and after school, among other uses.

It is a permanent and final decision – no call.

Another recent victory saw California land a permanent injunction against the federals when it comes to stopping their payments for the costs associated with the state’s energy projects. It is a victory for both climate and consumers, who benefit when we gain energy more effectively.

Last week, Bonta won another permanent injunction, blocking the Trump administration efforts to link compliance with compliance with their immigration policies. Security should not be linked to deportations, especially in California, where our immigrants are massively members of the law respectful of laws.

These are just some of Bonta’s victories. Of course, Trump and his servants are not satisfied with it. Stephen Miller, Santa Monica’s shame, seems to have particularly lost his marbles about the decision of the National Guard. On social networks, Miller seems to attack the judicial system and the attorneys general like Bonta.

“There is a large growing left terrorism movement in this country,” wrote Miller. “It is well organized and funded. And it is protected by judges, prosecutors and prosecutors of the left democrats.

It does not matter that the Oregon judge who made the national guard’s decision was named against Trump.

“Their objective, I think, is to relax and take a break and worry about judges; to relax and take a break and worry about the press; to relax and take a break and worry the prosecutors who defend the rule of law and democracy, who go to court and fight for good and fight for the law.”

Bonta expects the administration, far from learning lessons or nourishing self-reflection during this crazy race towards autocracy, continuing at high speed.

“We will see more, and we will see him quickly, and we will see him degenerate,” he said. “None of this is good, especially by putting soldiers in American cities or, you know, Trump treating them like his royal guard instead of the National Guard.”

Even when the Trump administration loses, “they still have it as a second move and perhaps a third, where they are still trying to advance their agenda, even when they were blocked by a court, even when they have been informed that they act illegally or unconstitutional,” he said.

Trump threatened on Monday, threatened to use the insurrection law to bypass the court’s decision on the National Guard, a massive escalation of his efforts to militarize American cities.

But California remains on a sequence of victories, to the great dismay of Trump.

It is my bet that as long as our judges continue to honor the rule of law, this sequence will hold.