Gavin Newsom: “We broke the law, but when the court said stop, we stopped.”

“And so I was struggling with that, and I started. I was being condemned, having second doubts and figuring out, yeah, We broke the law, but when the court said stop, we stopped. It wasn't a, you know, speed bump, it was a stop sign. The rule of law applied, and that's what we did. We applied the law. We pushed the envelope.” (31:30–31:36)

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