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A state attorney general brushed off a "blackmail" attempt by a media executive amid a lawsuit against a Trump-backed merger.

During an interview with former CNN anchor Jim Acosta, California Attorney General Rob Bonta talked about how David Ellison, the head of Paramount Skydance, threatened to pull out of Hollywood if his merger with Warner Bros. Discovery gets blocked. The Trump Department of Justice greenlit the merger earlier this year, paving the way for Paramount to take over the major Hollywood studio.

"That just felt like a desperate last-ditch effort to try to blackmail my office and the other AGs who have a job to do," Bonta said. "A duty to regulate and to blackmail us into allowing an illegal merger to go through, which we can't do, we won't do, we didn't do, we will never do."...

A blue-state attorney general sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump's next moves after a court loss set back his immigration plans.

During an appearance on MS NOW, California Attorney General Rob Bonta reacted to right-wing ideas for how to prevent immigrants from giving birth in the United States and warned that Trump could act on some of them.

Bonta described proposals like sterilizing all foreign visitors and restricting pregnant travelers as "wild-eyed stuff," and cautioned that ending birthright citizenship is one of the Trump administration's "top immigration policies, the centerpiece immigration policy."...

If a nightmare election-day scenario plays out under Trump, Democratic Attorneys General have a counterattack ready, according to one AG.

During a recent interview, California Attorney General Rob Bonta described how fellow Democratic AGs have been preparing in case the Trump administration deploys military force in response to a GOP election loss.

"The Democratic Attorneys General owe our constituents readiness and preparedness, and our constituents are telling us and screaming that their biggest concern right now is whether or not we will have election integrity free of interference from the Trump administration," Bonta explained....

California Democrats' window of opportunity to remove Donald Trump from the state ballot is beginning to close, Politico reported Tuesday.

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber has until Dec. 28 to determine which candidates will appear on the 2024 presidential ballot, according to the report.

Democrats in the California Assembly have called on Attorney General Rob Bonta to seek an expedited state court ruling, stating that Trump “continues to be a clear and present danger to free and fair elections in the United States.”...