States are Suing Trump’s Administration at Record Pace

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Many presidents face opposition from states during their time in office but the Trump administration is being sued by states at a record pace.

According to The Hill:

State attorneys general have filed an unprecedented number of lawsuits against the Trump administration, as Democratic-led states exercise new levers of power to block some of President Trump’s most controversial initiatives.

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States have formed coalitions to file 103 multi-state suits against the administration in its first three years, according to data compiled by Paul Nolette, a political scientist at Marquette University. The vast majority of those suits, 96, have been led by Democratic attorneys general.

By contrast, states filed 78 multi-state suits in the eight years of President Obama’s administration, and 76 multi-state suits during President George W. Bush’s eight years in office. Democratic attorneys general sued Trump 40 times in his first year in office alone, more lawsuits than have ever been filed against an administration in a single year.

“Every time this guy breaks the law, we take him to court,” said Xavier Becerra (D), California’s attorney general who has led 31 suits and been party to 25 others. Joining with other states to file suit “adds strength, it certainly adds value, and it shows unity. It demonstrates that the unlawful action that the Trump administration is looking to take impacts more than just one state.”

The most targeted agency by the attorneys general is the Environmental Protection Agency which has been sued 31 times. The agency’s focus has been to roll back suffocating Obama-era regulations.

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MillieK
MillieK
4 years ago

Leave the President alone, you scaliwags. —

Bonnie
Bonnie
4 years ago

These are evil, evil people that want to destroy our nation. Why doesn’t people wake up and get rid of these leaders. Look at what has happened to Virginia. They are going down the tube fast! In another year they will be like CA, NY and IL.

Richard Pratt
Richard Pratt
4 years ago
Reply to  Bonnie

Why Don’t people wake up ? They have. That is why a man like Trump got into office after the American people saw what that phony Muslim tried to do to America. The real Americans are awake and they will prove it on election day. You and I and the rest of the Good people, the “Deplorables” have little to fear.

Jim
Jim
4 years ago

There must be some way to turn this back on the states, state attorney generals and courts that continue this harassment. Can SCOTUS stop this? What can we do to stop it given half of this country worships the ground obama walks on?!?!

Patricia Anne Oakes
Patricia Anne Oakes
4 years ago

The ones who claim our president broke the law are the criminals themselves!

Cheryl
Cheryl
4 years ago

The leftist globalist billionaires who actually run western civilization DESPISE Trump’s America first agenda. Be on alert, the Federal Reserve & these globalists are working hand in glove & the HUGE equities & real estate BUBBLES fueled by ridiculously low interest rates & printed funny money just might get a pinprick ahead of the 2020 election, just as they did when they wanted Obama in the White House in 2008.

Stephane
Stephane
4 years ago

HATE: only STUPID people hate. xavier becerra is not a smart person. NONE of the demonrat led states ags are very smart. If they were possessors of any common sense, they would see that their actions only further the fervor with which the people of the USA are loving their ELECT President. The people’s common sense brings them to face the reality: the demonrats have lied to them too many times, never did anything about their promises proffered when running for election, always promoting their friends and their corrupting backers, promising to raise taxes, promising to help the ILLEGALS with the monies marked for Social Security and Medicare, while accusing the President of what they are doing. The people of the US are so much smarter than the demonrats give them credit.

ROSE
ROSE
4 years ago

AMERICA IS SO BLESSED TO HAVE DONALD TRUMP AS OUR PRESIDENT.AS A VOTER,WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE OUR COUNTRY UN-DIVIDED,BUT UNTIL JEALOUSY AND HATE GETS UNDER CONTROL,WE ARE FIGHTING AN UP-HILL BATTLE.///SEND EACH COMMIE CRATE AT LEAST A FULL DOZEN OF THE ILLEGAL,TO CARE FOR.THE COMMIE CRATES THAT DON’T WANT THE WALL FINISHED,MOST THE SPOILERS OR LOSERS LIVE BEHIND FENCES,///

Robert
Robert
4 years ago

Now it boils down to the the fact that the majority of the population think they were cheted in the 2016 election, look back through history every President who lost the popular vote but put in by the Electoral College has been pushed back against in their time in office. People who feel cheated want to make it difficult for the person who they think cheated them. Every one except Bush who had the Trade Centers disaster , served only one term under difficult circumstances their whole Presidency.

Dale Brown
Dale Brown
4 years ago

Let them bring all the law suits they want. We’re installing judges that have decency and common sense at a record pace as well. In God we trust

Diana
Diana
4 years ago

These socialist-communist need removed from office then expelled from America with revoked citizenship never allowed back and take their families with them only so much money because most is taxpayers that these vile criminals have stolen or sold America and Americans out to pad their pockets like bloomberg, and Biden sanders, and queer boy, plus the other billionaire that is trying to buy their way to the Presidential so they get their one world order here destroy our Constitution and America it’s self they can’t stand any freedom except for them

D MacKAY
D MacKAY
3 years ago

Soros Funded AG’s from Blue States – why are we not surprised.
The left used to be philosophically opposed. Now that the left has gone full they are only satisfied with abuse of power, imprisonment and murder. Defund and remove the Police and the Marxists will never be investigated. Reported crime will be Zero and Criminal statistics will entirely disappear.
So will anyone practicing Free Speech or who supports the Constitution. All disappeared just like in Argentina.
Progressive politics always moves from life to death without accountability.

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