First, just for Donald Trump and his cohorts and co-conspirators in crime:
He’s been in the news at least four times this week and if you don't live in the metropolitan New York City area you may not have heard of him. In December The New York Times profiled him emphasizing his being a Sikh: Experiencing Injustice, and Now Prosecuting It, From the Top: Gurbir Grewal is poised to become New Jersey’s attorney general, the first Sikh American to hold such a post in the nation. However, thanks to a Politico article the narrative has changed.
This story from May 21st tells us that he's our kind of attorney general:
NJ Attorney General Gurbir Grewal seeks to intervene in Texas-led suit meant to end DACA from NewJersey.com.
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal is moving to intervene in a Texas-led lawsuit that seeks an end to a federal program that shields from deportation young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children.
In a brief filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Texas, Grewal asserts that New Jersey should be allowed to intervene in the suit as a defendant because terminating the program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, would directly harm New Jersey and its residents. More than 17,000 New Jersey residents currently benefit from the program, whose participants are often referred to as "Dreamers."
"Dreamers are as American as those of us who were born here, and we’ll do everything we can to protect them,” Grewal said in a statement announcing the submission of the brief. “Unfortunately, the State of Texas has brought a lawsuit to force the federal government to end protections for Dreamers, an action that would put 17,000 New Jersey residents at risk of deportation.
"Typically, the U.S. Department of Justice would be responsible for defending DACA from this type of Texas-led lawsuit," he added, "but given everything going on in Washington these days, it’s clear that New Jersey needs to step in to protect the interests of Dreamers in our state and across the country."
A NewJersy.com article from May 18th also shows us where he stands on issues important to us: We'll crack down on for-profit schools if you don't, Jersey's AG tells Trump administration
Amid reports that President Donald Trump's administration is scaling back inquiries into accusations of shady practices at for-profit schools, New Jersey's attorney general made an offer to federal officials:
We can take it from here!
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal wrote to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday expressing alarm at a report from The New York Times that said her department had "effectively killed" investigations at large for-profit colleges where top federal education officials previously worked.
"If the federal government will not pursue these investigations wherever the facts and the law take them, let us pick up where you leave off," Grewal wrote in the letter. "Give the New Jersey Attorney General's Office access to your Department's files."
USA Today published an article, “ Gurbir Grewal forges path as the first Sikh state attorney general in U.S. history” emphasizing the fact that he is a Sikh and touched on the national implications of his role as the state’s new attorney general:
While Grewal didn’t name President Trump during his gala address, he listed how he’s resisted the Trump administration’s policies since his appointment, including policies on “Dreamers” — undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — as well as the travel ban on some Muslim-majority countries and banning most transgender people from serving in the military.
“What do we do about it?” he asked the Gala. “We hold accountable those who seek to harm others.”
Today Politico published A story that explains why Donald Trump has reason to fear him.
The new AG itching to take on Trump : New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has jurisdiction over 20 Trump properties and is ready to step into Eric Schneiderman’s void.
Grewal’s jurisdiction doesn’t cover the banking transactions, and he’d only be able to prosecute crimes if they happened in his state. But Trump has spent many key moments during the transition and most weekends last spring and summer at his Bedminster residence in north Jersey. Those include a visit last May when Trump and his team plotted to fire FBI Director James Comey and complained in an unreleased letter that he wouldn’t publicly exonerate the president.
“Much like Attorney General Schneiderman, we have more contact with properties in New Jersey, and if there’s any indication of any criminal activity, or anything like that, we’ll use the powers at our disposal to investigate,” Grewal said. “We have a lot of tools at our disposal.”
He declined to answer specifics, including whether he’s been in touch with Mueller’s team.
“There’s a nexus between the administration and New Jersey,” he said, “beyond that, I’m not going to touch on that issue at this point.”
Grewal also wouldn’t discuss whether he’ll pursue statute changes. Schneiderman had been pushing the Albany legislature to change the law to enable state-level charges against people who might be pardoned out of federal charges by the president.
A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment on whether there have been communications with Grewal or his office over de-conflicting investigations of backstopping pardons. Most legal experts, though, have trouble seeing how a state-level obstruction of justice charge would work, if it comes to that.
All this leaves a lot of unanswered questions as to the power which Attorney General Gerwal has to make life even more difficult for Donald Trump. However, if the president is paying attention he has to add New Jersey to the list of adversaries which include Mueller, Avanatti, New York State, and the Southern District of New York.*
*(UPDATE) I neglected to add the Federal District Court in Virginia where Robert Mueller's office has obtained 35 sets of subpoenas to call witnesses for Paul Manafort's bank and tax fraud trial set to begin in a Virginia federal court in July. Who knows how this will impact the case of Donald Trump. POLITICO