Brown Says California Lawsuit Is a Stunt by Sessions to Please Trump

California Governor Jerry Brown accused U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions of using the state’s 2.6 million undocumented residents to get back in the good graces of his boss, reinforcing the state’s role as the leader of the anti-Trump resistance.

Sessions, whose competency has been questioned repeatedly by the president, sued California Tuesday over a series of state laws aimed at protecting the country’s largest paperless population, escalating a battle over the administration’s crackdown on immigrants. On Wednesday, he gave prepared remarks to local police in Sacramento, citing the unfairness to police of having “criminal aliens” released into the community.