SACRAMENTO—Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised state budget proposal gives the Attorney General’s Office an additional $6.5 million and 31 positions to handle the “new legal workload” associated with fighting Trump administration policies.
Since taking office on Jan. 24, Attorney General Xavier Becerra has filed more than a dozen lawsuits and amicus briefs challenging the Trump administration’s initiatives to roll back Obama-era environmental regulations and to suspend travel from residents of six Muslim-majority countries. Becerra on Tuesday joined a multistate lawsuit in Montana that opposes the U.S. Interior Department’s decision to revive federal coal leasing on public lands.
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