States sue Trump administration
at record pace
Hill,
by
Reid Wilson
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
2/12/2020 6:54:05 AM
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.
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.
Another George Soros lever, when he started backing lefty moonbats for States Attorney ...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HPmatt 2/12/2020 7:11:25 AM (No. 315793)
If only Republican state AGs were as aggressive and on offense for conservative values when Obama was in office, PDJTs job to roll back unconstitutional but in effect federal policy would be easier. But it really brings in to question how 'conservative' are state officials. Like here in Texas, Gov Abbott & Lt Gov Dan Patrick sure talk a mean conservative game, but in the last Legislative Session, the majority republican controlled legislature did NOTHING to advance conservative issues on tax reductions, reduction in state spending, voter roll integrity, and pro-life protections of unborn babies.
Their inaction leaves the door WIDE OPEN for voter fraud and no fire wall in case the huge amount of legal and illegal immigrants and Kalifornian and New York tax refugees vote in future Texas elections.
Senators John Cornyn & Ted Cruz take it for granted that Texas republican voters are there for them, and I guess are relying on PDJT to fire up republic voters to turn out. The upcoming March republican primaries don't have PDJT aligned candidates in every Congressional race, let alone ones Beto won for democrats last time, so it'll be interesting to see how red Texas stays. Texas Republican party and Dallas Republican party seem to be asleep at the switch.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cor-vet 2/12/2020 7:18:18 AM (No. 315798)
When a political party is 99/100th percent lawyers, it's to be expected. PDTs remake of the judiciary may help, but it's going to take time.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 2/12/2020 7:23:06 AM (No. 315802)
Good to see we have a goobernment of the lawsuit, for the lawsuit and by the lawsuit. Why vote? Some black robed cherry picked Demigod will just wipe out the will of the people.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/12/2020 7:52:34 AM (No. 315832)
the federal government can be sued with the permission of the federal tort claims act of 1946. congress can change that law, if they chose to do so.
without that law, sovereign immunity prevails, as I understand it, based on british common law - the king can do no wrong. kings rule because God wants them to rule. divine right leads directly to sovereign immunity.,
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 2/12/2020 8:06:21 AM (No. 315845)
This is LawFare. It is part of liberal strategy.
Part of the pushback recently by Gorsuch starts to close the door on these tactics. They shop for a friendly federal judge to get a favorable ruling and a national injunction. Gorsuch told judges they better stop issuing broad injunctions because they are not going to be received well by the SCOTUS.
SLOWLY, doors are being slammed on dem tactics.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/12/2020 8:19:39 AM (No. 315864)
0bama got sued by states too and the lawsuits went nowhere. Even with all of his leftist judges in place.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/12/2020 8:21:13 AM (No. 315867)
“There’s pretty much all upside and not much downside to bringing these suits.”
Yeah, if you are an idle lawyer or judge, the wasteful activity makes money for all concerned. It's not about right and wrong, it's about which lawyer wins. This is exactly the type of legal nonsense that drove Sarah Palin out of the governor's office in Alaska.
It wasn't that long ago that students were being discouraged from going to law school because there was a glut of lawyers and not enough income to go around. I see the democrats have taken care of that through constant harassment.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Miceal 2/12/2020 8:35:20 AM (No. 315888)
The taxpayers in these States need to speak up...unless they are on board with the waste of their tax dollars...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/12/2020 8:44:06 AM (No. 315900)
The summum malum of George Soros has come to fruition. Hopefully, just the blue state idiots, not the real American states' attorneys general.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/12/2020 10:25:27 AM (No. 316053)
It’s easy for those Democrat States to initially win their cases, or obtain nationwide injunctions, in the lower federal courts located with their States based on political issues that effect those States being imposed by a Presidential Administration in far off DC. Not so much in the Appeals Courts and the Supreme Court. After all those partisan and politicized District Court Judges want to continue being invited to local political dinner parties.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 2/12/2020 10:36:44 AM (No. 316069)
Elections have consequences folks. This is on the voters in those states. People need to get the idea out of their head that their guys are okay, its all the others who are rotten. Guess what blue state voters? Your guys are not only rotten, they are brazenly stabbing you in the back. Simply because we finally have a president who is helping us succeed.
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