(The Center Square) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Wednesday he was joining 12 other Democratic state attorneys general in intervening in a $14 billion merger between rival technology companies Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networking.

The new effort follows Bonta’s announcement last month that he opposed the U.S. Department of Justice’s settlement of the merger, which he alleged was the result of backroom deals that were not conducted with transparency and were not in the best interests of the public. He has asked the court reviewing the settlement to allow him and other state attorneys general to allow for a multi-state investigation into the merger.

“We’ll really dig into what were the reasons and the rationale behind this settlement,” Bonta said during a press conference

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