High above Hollywood Avenue overlooking the iconic TCL Chinese Theater and the Masked Miracle, overlooking the Famous Journey, an elite “Judicial Alliance” gathered on Tuesday to prepare for the battle ahead.
They see their opponents – President Trump – as stronger than ever. Now, the Avengers agree that this is the “last bastion” of the masses.
“The bets aren’t likely to be higher right now,” said Artie, NJ. General Matthew Pratkin. “What we are seeing is scope, scale and a range of illegal and unconstitutional activities that have not been seen in American history.”
For the Democratic Bar Association, the PAC defines the top police coalition for deliberation, and the Hollywood Policy Conference is an opportunity to plan their next move as an ongoing lawsuit against the Trump administration.
What they say is to thwart the constitutional crisis that many believe is already underway.
“This is just the beginning,” said Artie, Illinois. General Kwame Raoul. “We talk every day about how we can combat this attack on the Republic, an attack on the Constitution and a massive attack on the rule of law.”
Atti, Delaware. General Kathy Jennings noted that Trump supporters have called on the president to ignore adverse court rulings to enforce its agenda.
“I believe it’s already a crisis,” Jennings said. “What if we do everything we might do and they still disobey? That’s a threat there.”
Their masters are more measured.
“I believe our system is durable,” California Atty. General Rob Bonta said. “We are under stress testing, but we are durable.”
They insist that AGS is not looking for a fight.
Still, just three weeks after the second Trump presidency, 23 of the nation’s most powerful lawyers have filed at least six of the more than 60 lawsuits filed with the CEO and his allies.
Defending the Constitution was not what Bill Lockyer thought of when he was with a small number of like-minded AGs in 2002.
“We started out very modest,” said the former California attorney general, who left office in 2007 after nearly three decades of public life and now works for law firm Brown Rudnick. “Democracy is often expensive, so they have to try to work together to overcome this barrier.”
The Republican Attorney General organized his own affinity group in the 1990s. Under former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the Republican Party took active action to make the state office more partisan and put cash into the raging game.
“I’m one of a few people who think there should be an opposition,” Locky said.
Republican Lawyers Association. No requests for comment were responded.
The Democratic Association remains fairly loose, raising several million a year until the organization moved to Washington, D.C. in 2016 and hired full-time employees. In the next election cycle, it doubled the previous year and took up four times the year before 2015.
Last year, Daga drew nearly $20 million from Stephen Spielberg and Communication Survers among others. Elon Musk’s X and Tiktok both contributed.
By February 2024, its members had formulated a contingency plan for the second Trump presidency. They looked closely at the 2025 project, a 900-page policy manual written by Trump’s first alumni and other right-wing champions, hoping it would telegraph the administration’s early actions.
“We must always expect that it can be a threat,” said Artie, Massachusetts. “Because we are ready, we are able to respond quickly.”
At the November policy meeting in Philadelphia, they strengthened their defense. California alone allocates $25 million to the office of “FangLong” Bonta.
“It would be a disappointment to our duty without spending the time we spend preparing,” Pratkin said.
At their Hollywood conference, wearing silk tie and enamel state pins, the people’s lawyers traded in jokes and enthusiastic hugs, even as they were ready to face existential threats.
“We are indeed friends and colleagues,” Jennings said.
For many, the feeling of this meeting is the last stance.
“[During Trump’s first term] I never felt like we had lost our democracy, our powers were separated, our three government departments. “Jennings said. “I feel we are in crisis right now. It feels very different. ”
One topic of debate is how to defend the rule of law while bringing its noble principles to the earth.
“There is collective passion [within DAGA] Maintaining the rule of law in our constitution and giving ordinary people an idea of why this is important. “Massachusetts AG Campbell said. “It’s not just the Constitution – it’s a contract between the government and you.” ”
Campbell said she and her colleagues strategically included the city’s challenge to Trump’s orders ending the right to birth citizenship. They wanted to establish a tangible connection with San Francisco man Wong Kim Ark, whose landmark Supreme Court case in 1898 extended the rights of the 14th Amendment to the children of immigrants.
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorkin ruled in Boston Thursday that they were in favour, banning orders blocked by federal judges in Washington, New Hampshire and Maryland.
Daga members won other early lawsuits in the District Court and felt confident they would win again among the majority of the submitted Freedom Tour people.
“[Even] “The Republican-appointed judge has been announced for the rule of law,” Jennings said. “This is a judge appointed by Reagan, who issued a decision in the Citizen of Birth Rights [in Washington] It took him only 25 minutes to declare President Trump’s executive order blatantly unconstitutional. ”
But the AGS worry about what could happen if one of their challenges arrived at the Supreme Court, where the conservative majority and three Trump-appointed judges sometimes put precedents on hold for the president’s agenda.
“At some point, the U.S. Supreme Court will conduct a test,” Mays said. “Does the U.S. Supreme Court believe in the separation of power? Does the U.S. Supreme Court believe in the rule of law? That moment is coming.”
