California governor files freedom of information request after federal agents appeared at redistricting press briefing
California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has filed a request for information from the Trump administration over border patrol agents’ appearance at a news conference he hosted on Thursday.
In a statement, Newsom said the presence of federal agents at his press briefing in Los Angeles was “intended to intimidate those defending a fair electoral process”.
Dozens of armed and masked agents descended on the Japanese American National Museum’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, where Newsom was announcing a redistricting plan for California, in a raid widely condemned by the governor’s fellow Democrats.
I think you’re right. I also think one side (the not-fascists) refuse to see or understand that, and it’s starting to look a whole fucking lot like the vast majority of them are going to surrender without any real fight - legal, political, or otherwise. And yes, “otherwise” is definitely doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.