Lawsuit: Calif. Attorney General Not Eligible to Hold Office
Democratic California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a leading legal antagonist of President Donald Trump, is not legally eligible to serve as his state’s top law enforcement officer, according to a lawsuit working its way through the state’s courts.
After 24 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Becerra was appointed California attorney general on Jan. 24, 2017, replacing Kamala Harris (D), who was elected to the U.S. Senate. He won election to the position in his own right on Nov. 6, 2018.
Eric Early, a Los Angeles lawyer who sought the Republican nomination last year in the AG race, argues in his lawsuit that Becerra is ineligible for the post because he was not practicing law for anything close to five years prior to his appointment or election to the office. Early lost his case in the initial phase and filed an appeal last week.
“The state’s top legal officer should have at least a modicum of experience as a practicing lawyer,” Early told The Epoch Times in an interview.
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“Instead we have one who has no clue what it’s like to be a practicing lawyer,” he said. “We have ended up with a pure, wall-to-wall politician as our state top legal officer, so it has not been a surprise that since he became attorney general his agenda has been entirely political.”
“We might as well have Nancy Pelosi in our attorney general’s office,” Early said, adding Becerra “has turned into a vessel for the resistance.” The “resistance” is often used to describe the Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump.
As of February, the California attorney general’s office had filed a record 46 lawsuits against the Trump administration, according to a tally by The Hill newspaper. This is reportedly more than any other state attorney general during the current administration or any other presidency in the nation’s history. Republican attorneys general across the nation sued the previous administration a total of 46 times during Barack Obama’s entire presidency.
Becerra has repeatedly angered conservatives and supporters of the rule of law.
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