11/16/2020

ATTORNEY GENERAL/LAWSUIT/TRUMP ADMIN: “During President Donald Trump’s four years in office, his administration has sparred in court with state attorneys general over nearly every issue.

Among the topics: the ‘travel ban’; the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA; family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border; the ‘national emergency’ declaration to build the border wall; international student visas; student loan protections; clean water rules; transgender health care protections; automobile emissions; a citizenship question on the 2020 census; U.S. Postal Service operations; and Obamacare…

A review of litigation against federal agencies during the Trump administration shows that state attorneys general have filed 138 multistate lawsuits since he took office, according to data compiled by Paul Nolette, a political scientist at Marquette University in Milwaukee who studies the office of attorney general.

It’s a sharp increase from Trump’s predecessors, including Barack Obama, whose administration was sued 78 times during his two presidential terms, and George W. Bush, whose administration was sued 76 times during his two terms.”

-Erik Ortiz, “State attorneys general have sued Trump’s administration 138 times — nearly double those of Obama and Bush,” nbcnews.com, Nov. 16, 2020