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    GOP eyes the playbook California used to stymie Trump

    by Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Feb 16, 2021 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON – After Democrats succeeded in unraveling much of the Trump agenda through a California-led deluge of lawsuits, they now face a sobering reality: Their courtroom playbook is about to be turned against them.

    Republican attorneys general are angling to retaliate with equal force, further pushing the boundaries of an elected position that not long ago was among the most apolitical in state government. In the modern era, it is the new launchpad for partisan attacks.

    While Republicans may find in Biden a tougher target — legal blunders made Trump's actions uniquely vulnerable — they are also backed by a better funded and more brazen political apparatus than Democratic state lawyers had going into battle with the Trump administration. The same "dark money" groups that

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