With more than 300 lawsuits against President Donald Trump, Democratic Attorneys General, federal employee unions, and liberal advocacy groups say they’re digging in for a long fight.
This includes New Jersey’s Attorney General Matthew Platkin. “If they think we’re going to get tired and stop, that’s not gonna happen,” Platkin told Bloomberg.
He added that the lawyers in his office are motivated to keep up the pace.
Platkin’s office has sued the Trump administration several times including for his attempt to defund off shore wind farming, educational funding threats, and cuts to health and human services.
President Trump’s expansive use of executive power has resulted in at least 328 lawsuits by May 1. According to the outlet, many judges are halting his policies more often than they allowed them.
“The courts entered more than 200 orders stopping the administration’s actions in 128 cases,” Bloomberg said. “With judges sometimes ruling at multiple stages of the legal fights.”
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Even though most lawsuits are coming from the left, Bloomberg found that his court losses came from a mix of judges who were appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents, including some nominated by Trump during his first term.
Many of the judges who find a Trump lawsuit in their courtroom end up a targets of the president’s attacks. He recently called Obama appointee District Judge Beryl Howell “a highly biased and unfair disaster.” A shock considering weeks earlier, Howell allowed Trump to press ahead with dissolving the Institute of Peace.
“Judges feel at this point like anything is possible from a retribution standpoint, and they’re concerned about that,” said Dickinson College President John Jones, a retired federal judge in Pennsylvania appointed under George W. Bush. “But are they pulling their punches? Absolutely not.”
The federal court in Washington has borne the brunt of litigation. At least 161 cases were filed or transferred there. According to Bloomberg, a “high number of lawsuits” have also landed in Boston, Baltimore, and the Maryland suburbs around Washington, and San Francisco.
