{"id":18633,"date":"2025-06-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=18633"},"modified":"2025-06-15T20:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:56:31","slug":"ag-labrador-backs-federal-response-to-the-violence-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/ag-labrador-backs-federal-response-to-the-violence-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Labrador Backs Federal Response to the Violence in California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BOISE \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador and 24 other Republican Attorneys General issued a joint statement supporting President Trump\u2019s decision to deploy the National Guard in response to violent rioting in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWe will always defend the right to peacefully protest, but there\u2019s nothing peaceful about arson, assault, and anarchy. If you set police cars on fire, throw Molotov cocktails at law enforcement, and loot businesses, you must be held accountable.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cIn California, we\u2019re seeing the results of leadership that excuses lawlessness and undermines law enforcement. When local and state officials won\u2019t act, the federal government must.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWe stand with law enforcement, we support President Trump\u2019s action, and we will not let chaos take hold in our states.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican Attorneys General across the country stand united in condemning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Violent attacks on law enforcement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The normalization of mob violence as \u2018activism\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Any attempt to delegitimize efforts to restore order<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leaders who put politics above public safety<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney General Labrador joined the coalition which includes the Attorneys General of Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ag.idaho.gov\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06.10.25-Joint-AG-Statement-on-Trumps-Action-in-CA.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOISE \u2014&nbsp;Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador and 24 other Republican Attorneys General issued a joint statement supporting President Trump\u2019s decision to deploy the National Guard in response to violent rioting in California. \u201cWe will always defend the right to peacefully protest, but there\u2019s nothing peaceful about arson, assault, and anarchy. If you set police cars on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":18528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[591,824,641],"class_list":["post-18633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-california","tag-press-release","tag-violence","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18634,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18633\/revisions\/18634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}