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Attorney General Bonta Is Mulling a New Anti-Hollywood Tariff Tactic

The First Amendment could be key, state's top prosecutor Rob Bonta tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Essentially, what Bonta is suggesting that because Trump appears to be financially penalizing people for speech he doesn’t like — whether through movies and TV shows that support progressive causes or comments and fundraisers in the same vein — their First Amendment rights to express those views are being violated. Last month Newsom and Bonta announced that they were suing Trump for placing tariffs on a host of goods that has had “devastating impacts on the economy” and were “creating chaos in the stock and bond markets.” Much of the complaint focused on procedural issues. Bonta has been busy with other anti-Trump actions of late, suing the administration this week over the halting of windfarm projects and mass federal firings, adding to more than a dozen lawsuits his office has already filed against the president.

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