“We are going to fight these irrational, unfair, and unconstitutional policies that have been imposed on you and our federal officers. It cannot be that someone who illegally crosses the border and two days later arrives in Sacramento, Dubuque, Louisville, Central Islip, New York is home free, never to be removed. How can that be?” A day after the Trump administration sued the state over its immigrant sanctuary laws, Jeff Sessions started a California Bear knuckle brawl with a series of tough statements.

+ Unsurprisingly, California’s leadership plans to fight the suit, and Governor Jerry Brown was unimpressed by the Sessions speech: “We know the Trump administration is full of liars. What Jeff Sessions said is simply not true. I call upon him to apologize to the people of California (for bringing) the mendacity of Washington to California and trying to insert this kind of division and, I might add dysfunctionality, in a state that is really working. Let’s build some bridges, not walls.”

+ Brown also said that by bringing the suit, the federal government was “basically going to war against the state of California.” Here’s the latest from the LA Times.

+ Vox: Jeff Sessions’s lawsuit against California’s sanctuary laws, explained.