Blue State AGs Fight for Their Jobs While Fending Off Trump

Democratic attorneys general spent the past 16 months suing the current administration at a record pace, often thwarting President Donald Trump’s most ambitious policy maneuvers with lawsuits questioning their constitutionality.

While the most prominent of Trump’s critics, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, resigned a week ago after being accused of assaulting four women, there’s no shortage of attorneys general willing to fill any gap. Indeed, officials from California and New York insist nothing about their coordinated litigation strategy will change -- a strategy they’re counting on to carry them through 32 crucial elections in November. And many say that with Barbara Underwood -- a former U.S. solicitor general -- filling in as acting New York attorney general, collaboration may even improve.