What won’t Trump blame on California?

President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a 2023 Farmers for Trump campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa. | Scott Olson/Getty Images

President Donald Trump’s second term has been very good to large meat companies, which raise and slaughter some 10 billion animals each year. But his administration just gave the industry perhaps its biggest gift yet — in the form of a lawsuit against California.

The lawsuit, filed on July 9 by the Department of Justice, seeks to dismantle part of California’s Proposition 12...