How State AGs Became a Check on the President

“The instinct to sue the federal government became habitual under Trump. Democratic AGs sued his administration more than 130 times, double the total under Obama or Bush. Current lawsuits against Biden are part of that same pattern, says Tierney, a former Democratic attorney general of Maine.

’It’s totally consistent with the pattern starting with the few cases in the George W. Bush years and then increasing seriously in the Obama years and the Trump years,’ he says.”

Alan Greenblatt, “How State AGs Became a Check on the President,” Governing, September 30, 2021.