Newsom violates logan act

One of my comments is missing!

He's the governor of California. Governor's can (and do) negotiate trade agreements in their own.

That's not a violation of the Logan Act.

The federal government sets trade policy! He is not the Governor of the United States!

They'll say anything that helps to fuel their insane Trump vitriole...

Oh, also, you need to look up the legal definition of "dispute" and "controversy".

Okay... well, you see, the problem is that Newsome isn't working to override the Trump Administration's tariffs, he's appealing to foreign governments with a request that they exempt California's exports from their list of tariffed goods, refrain from placing burdensome import taxes on their own citizens relative to California's products.

The UNITED states! Individual states do not have the right to undermine the federal government. China could then just ship everything to California and then they could distribute throughout the US avoiding any tariffs and undermining the whole point! We bargain as a country. Not individually!

You're still not getting it; it's got zero to do with where foreign exporters ship their product and everything to do with where California ships its product. In order for Newsome to run afoul of the Logan Act, he would have to be negotiating on the United States' behalf for lower tariffs imposed by the U.S. government. As he's not doing that, he's in the clear.

No, I get it. He is trying to tell foreign countries that he plans to run for president in 2028 and if they do not cave to these tariffs and keep their tariffs and duties in place to hurt the current president he will give them one hell of a deal once he is elected! He is hoping they will funnel money into act blue to help fund his 2028 run!

Take a moment, read your comment and think about how wildly speculative it is, how many variables may come into play over the next four years, how you're hypothesizing a long-game scenario of a Newsome presidential run from a simple ask to exclude California from retaliative tariff policy that, given Trump's repeated pattern of announce/recant, may very well not even be necessary in a week.