Bob Ferguson Keeps his Trump Boxing Gloves On

By Joel Connelly

Gov-elect Bob Ferguson made it clear Thursday: he will play chess with the second Trump Administration. The Democrats took a shellacking through the middle of the country but carried the coasts, especially in Washington. Fergy dispatched Dave Reichert with more than 56 percent of the vote.

But the AG who sued the first Trump Administration from the get-go was holding his cards on how to respond in the second. The Trump victory has left lots of people “scared and fearful for themselves,” he told a news conference in Seattle.

Ferguson pledged that the state will respond when its citizens are harmed, noting that there will be criteria for litigation. The action by Trump and company must be illegal. It needs to be harmful. And the state must have standing to sue.

Ferguson will have a state government to run. He was elected by “Space Needle Washington” — every place visible from Seattle’s landmark. It’s a stressed out territory these days — a housing shortage, the homelessness crisis, and some of America’s worst traffic congestion.

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