• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    AGs are elected in California. She wasn’t a Jerry Brown employee.

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      4 months ago

      Attorney generals represent the state and state agencies in federal court. In this example Jerry Brown was the govenor and Harris was representing him in federal court because that is the job of an attorney general.

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        4 months ago

        Jerry Brown is not the state and not her boss. Elected AG’s regularly just accept rulings they believe are just, whether or not their governor wants them to. Brown in no way got to dictate what she would do.

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          4 months ago

          He was the govenor of California at the time. It is an attorney generals job to defend the govenor in court. Whether or not to accept a ruling is the choice of the defendant, not the attorney general.