Gavin Newsom: “52 lawsuits have been filed [against executive overreach]…”

“And asserting that no one, particularly the President of the United States, stands above the law. We've gone to court. We've gone to court. Gone to court to protect our people. Pushing back against this executive overreach, 52, 52 lawsuits have been filed [against executive overreach], funded by you, by the way, in the special session that all of you led. And as a consequence, point of pride for our Attorney General. As a consequence, We preserved about $168 billion in illegally frozen federal resources that belong to our schools, that belong to our hospitals, that belong to our seniors.” (08:47–08:54)

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