By Staff
In the first hundred days of the Trump administration, President Donald J. Trump has reimagined the country’s social contract with its citizens through executive orders. This administration has pledged more opportunities and more consequences in itself.
The administration has issued 139 executive orders since January 20th, 2025, to form and shape American life as imagined by conservative residents. The “ideation” is focusing power in a unitary executive who can force changes as transformative as the New Deal.
The state of California, with its usual progressive agenda, is now having to defend itself and fight in court to preserve their rights. California has filed 18 lawsuits against the Trump administration, ranging from defending and preserving birthright citizenship to restoring billions of dollars in health and medical grants.
California officials have used the courts to defend itself ever since Trump’s first administration. California sued the federal government around 123 times, and won two out of three cases. The Democratic leaders of California have begun to prepare for new cases months before Trump took office by writing briefs and setting aside tens of millions of dollars for expected court fights.
“We’ve had plenty of instances of California needing to play defense, going back to the Reagan administration,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a dean in the UC Berkeley School of Law. “I think what’s different from the first term is qualitatively, how much of a disregard they have for the Constitution and the law.”
In California’s lawsuit against the Trump administration, specifically over the order that voters provide proof of citizenship, California’s attorneys alleged that the executive order interferes with the state’s ability to govern itself. At the same time it also seizes Congress’s power to be able to legislate.
“It bears emphasizing: the President has no power to do any of this,” the lawsuit states. “Neither the Constitution nor Congress has authorized the President to impose documentary proof of citizenship requirements or to modify State mail-ballot procedures.”
Governor Gavin Newson has been recently raising his attacks on President Donald Trump on Republican’s districts. Newsom recently ran an ad on Fox and Friends that stated “tariffs punish families and risk ending America’s run as the world’s greatest economy,” while boasting about how California’s economic growth is all thanks to “reducing [trade] barriers.” Around the same time, he launched a fact-checking website that addresses online misinformation by “right-wing influencers” and claims from Trump, Elon Musk and Fox News.
Just recently, California has joined 16 other Democratic-led states over suing Trump’s move to cut billions in funding for electric vehicle charges. California says it could lose more than over $300 million, thousands of jobs, and very important infrastructures.
17 attorney generals, including Rob Banta, are also suing over Trump’s executive order that will halt approvals, permits, and loans for wind farms. California then joined another lawsuit to block or at least delay the layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, along with cuts to public health grants.
Much of the defense over that order and others that has been challenged by California will happen under the supervision of the U.S. The Supreme Court has repeatedly voted 6-3 to uphold the elements of the Trump agenda.
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