President Donald Trump has appointed California State Assemblyman Bill Essayli (R-Corona) as U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, elevating the “MAGA Muslim” conservative to one of the most powerful prosecutorial posts in the nation.
Essayli served as a federal prosecutor against the ISIS husband-and-wife terrorists who carried out a mass shooting at a Christmas party in San Bernardino in 2015. In 2022, he became the first Muslim elected to the state legislature.
He has been a staunch, Trump-supporting conservative, and antagonized Democrats in Sacramento by standing up to radical left-wing positions, particularly on transgender issues, where he led the Republican fight for parental rights.
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Essayli also opposed Democrat policies to spend taxpayer money on illegal aliens, such as a bill to allow illegal aliens to
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