LOS ANGELES — Girding for four years of potential battles with President-elect Donald J. Trump, Democratic leaders of the California Legislature announced Wednesday that they had hired Eric H. Holder Jr., who was attorney general under President Obama, to represent them in any legal fights against the new Republican White House.
The decision by the Legislature to retain Mr. Holder, who is now a prominent Washington lawyer, is the latest sign of the ideological battle
that may play out over the next four years between this predominantly
Democratic state and Washington. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic
candidate for president, defeated Mr. Trump by more than four million
votes here.