Records Reveal How Democrat AGs Collaborated Anti-Trump Legal Strategy Before Inauguration
25th June 2025
As early as July of last year, during the heat of a presidential race, a group of Democrat state attorneys general coordinated on challenging the White House on environmental policy.
Fast forward to 10 days after Republican Donald Trump was elected to another term as president, and Democrat attorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia agreed that they “have a common interest in developing potential litigation to challenge executive action related to ending or curtailing birthright citizenship.”
In the following days and weeks after the election and before Trump was inaugurated, attorneys general—such as Letitia James of New York, Rob Bonta of California, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Brian Schwalb of the District of Columbia, and others—planned other hypothetical lawsuits regarding immigration, environmental regulations, health care, and gun control.