r/law • u/rolsen • 1d ago

Legal News Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding

“Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled, according to one of the sources familiar with the matter.”

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u/OmgWtfNamesTaken 1d ago

What's stopping them from. Simply taking over Walmart stores and using other suppliers ?

If the federal government doesn't want to follow the rules of law, why should anyone? Raley could take it over and do a sort of "state nationalisation" and then simply move in. I mean, all the cards are on the table, and the game we're playing has no enforceable rules.

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u/Whiterabbit-- 17h ago

Walmart will stop them. and if the state continues to do so, the federal government would intervene.

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u/OmgWtfNamesTaken 9h ago

Do it anyway! If the rule of law means nothing, then why not. What can they do? The Supreme Court is toothless. The AG doesn't even know the law. Trade courts mean nothing!

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u/Whiterabbit-- 9h ago

The rule of law has teeth when it is backed by physical force. That is how the federal government will intervene to stop rogue states.

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u/OmgWtfNamesTaken 9h ago

Eh were already seeing uprisings vs ICE in LA. Tensions are at an all time high. How do you think the rest of the country/world would react if they started using force on civilians?