As President-elect Donald Trump builds his administration, Democratic governors and attorneys general from across the country have been plotting their resistance through lawsuits or legislation.
New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin this weekend posted on social media that he’s ready to take on the Trump administration, vowing to take it to court if the president unlawfully attacks the rights of Garden State residents.
“I don’t wake up every morning dying to sue the federal administration,” Platkin told NJ Spotlight News.
“There will be times that President Trump’s administration — just like frankly President Biden’s administration — will do things that I wouldn’t personally vote for if I were a member of Congress,” he said. “It’s when his actions cross over and violate the laws and undermine the rights of our residents in ways that violate those laws or our Constitution. That’s when we will step in, and we are prepared to do so.”
Platkin said he is particularly concerned about the administration using “an aggressive reading” of the Comstock Act that would impose a de facto national abortion ban. “We have to take what they say at face value,” he said. “And if that happens, trust me, New Jersey will be there ready to fight it, because we will always stand up for reproductive health care access in our state.”
