After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to
withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling
last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to
withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.