We've got some bombshell good news in California, and I've got four interviews this week.

I speak with Tommy Vitor about RFK's disastrous Senate hearing and Graham Platner, Abdul Al-Sayed, and Rob Sand about their runs in Maine, Michigan, and Iowa ahead of 2026.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

So on last week's podcast, I spoke about the one court case that I was watching out above all others.

It's the case in California, Newsom versus Trump, where the Democrats sued Trump over his deployment of federal troops.

And the reason that this is so important is twofold.

First off, Trump is, you know, obviously looking to flex his autocratic muscles right now.

And what better way to do that than by sending in a police force that's answerable to him

in every major population sensor in America?

He's done it in L.A. and D.C., and he's now threatening to do it in Chicago and New York

and New Orleans.

And second, he wants to be able to normalize this idea of deploying troops so that if and when

he does it during the election, it won't feel as anti-democratic as it actually is. And remember,

he's tried this before. He tried to seize the voting machines in 2020, in Georgia. He tried to block

certification of the election in Congress. He ultimately incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

But back then, he didn't have the boots on the ground to be able to effectuate his plans.

But imagine what a standing army answerable to him would be able to do the next time he issues his edicts.

All of which is to say, there are some very obvious reasons why we need to fight back against

the legal basis for him to be able to deploy these troops.

And we got exactly that ruling just days ago, where a trial court judge, Judge Breyer, ruled against Trump in his efforts to deploy the military for any reason other than basically guarding federal buildings.

And of course, Trump was using them as his own police force. He was using them for law

enforcement and so on. That's now illegal in California. So what happens next? Trump may appeal this

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