There are some major contradictions in President Donald Trump’s view of what government should do to help and protect Americans as expressed this week.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday defended Illinois' sanctuary laws protecting undocumented immigrants at a hearing before Congress, while accusing President Donald Trump of "abuses of power" by deploying the military to Los Angeles in response to protests against his administration's immigration crackdown.

California is taking the Trump administration to court again, this time over the administration's blocking of the state's 2035 ban on the sale of new gas powered cars.

But legal experts said Trump’s effort to ban protesters’ masks could face hurdles. "Trump has no authority to order the arrests of anyone wearing masks at protests," said Jonathan Markovitz, an attorney at the ACLU of Southern California.

California sued Donald Trump's administration Thursday over his move to scrap the state's tailpipe emission rules and its drive to phase out gas-powered cars. Under that authority, which Bonta said has not been contested by successive Republican and Democrat administrations,

Minnesota faces elevated federal investigations by Trump administration for permitting transgender athletes in girls' sports after softball controversy.