The Trump administration has triggered a whirlwind of new executive policies and orders since it took power in January. In many cases, it has been the courts that prevented them from coming to fruition.
United States Democratic Lawyers have repeatedly sued President Donald Trump and his administration this year. Have searched for breaks about their efforts to end the Citizenship at the part of birth Guaranteed to the babies born in the United States, cut out with sweeping Financing of medical research and intervened in the name of institutions, such as Harvard Universitythat they say the federal government is directed unfairly.
The last five months have been “The legal battles of our lives”, the Illinois Attorney General, Kwame Roul He testified to a group of democratic legislators on Monday in the Capitol of the United States.
State’s lawyers are “the first line of defense against the actions that violate our laws and harm our communities,” said Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, sitting with Raoul and his homologists from Minnesota and New Jersey, all Democrats.
The court, loaded as a “Focus Forum”, detained jointly by the Democratic members of the House and the Senate, aimed to draw attention to the efforts of Democratic General Lawyers to curb or stop Trump’s agenda.
Campbell detailed a series of “significant victories” that obstruct Trump’s policies and other initiatives that his office has taken to advise members of the public about their rights and maintain control of companies and civil rights violations in the face of federal government cuts.
Trump has issued more executive orders at this time of his presidency “than any president of the modern memory,” said Senator Dick Dubin, from Illinois, who co -president at the Forum.
“The flood of the area is what they call. We have to answer,” he said.
The response of the opponents to Trump has also been in all hands, his co -chair, Maryland’s representative Jamie Raskin, he said.
The Trump Administration has been demanded more than 300 times and the state’s lawyers have provided at least 30 demands that challenge their policies. Federal judges designated by both Republicans and Democrats have responded with almost 200 preliminary orders, stopping Trump as the lawsuits are played.
“We have won some and we have lost some and we hope nothing less, under the rule of law,” Raskin said. “We will defend the rule of law. We will not be intimidated by Trump’s authoritarian threats and tactics.”
Campbell’s office directed or participated in challenging demands Millions of dollars of federal financing cuts In medical research on cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions, as well as other demands that fight against repression Vehicle emission programs or strong cuts to State Child Care Services and Public safety grantsShe said.
In multiple demands for federal financing, its office ensured preliminary orders temporarily stopping the cuts while the judicial case continues.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell testifies on June 23, 2025, to a group of democratic legislators at Capitol Hill on their efforts to combat the Trump administration.Reporting Chamber’s Judicial Committee in Liustream
“In each of these cases, the President has tried to circumvent the power of the portfolio congress, as defined in the Constitution, in favor of playing politics with our state services and public health,” said Campbell. “And this is exactly what AGS State has stopped.”
“We will stay,” he committed.
In a recent case, a Federal Judge of Boston last week punished the Trump administration for cuts in subsidies funded by national health institutes for medical research.
Judge William Young, appointed President Ronald Reagan, said that the subsidies were reduced from “disadvantaged issues and populations”, including diversity, heritage and inclusion initiatives. In four decades on the bench, he said that “he had never seen government racial discrimination like this.”
Funding provided billions of dollars in medical research aimed at all states in the country. Campbell said that the challenges of his cuts aimed to protect the money that flows to states of all political stripes.
After the financing cuts were announced on a Friday, their office lawyers “mobilized to submit to court on Monday, because we knew what was at stake,” said Campbell.
Particularly in ongoing medical studies or clinical trials, even a brief reduction in funding that pauses the research may have harmful and irreversible effectspointed.
“When you talk about a child who has pediatric cancer or a veterinarian who deals with PTSD, we do not pay attention to whether or not they have a” D “or” R “for their names,” he said. “We mobilize to advance this litigation to protect public health, not just those people in our state.”
Campbell’s most recent legal efforts include joining a lawsuit on Trump’s Trump’s decision federalize the Soldiers of the National Guard of CaliforniaGovin Gavin Newsom, to respond to the protests of the application of immigration to Los Angeles.
Marked the first time in decades that a president had federalized the National Guard troops of an absent state of the governor of this state.
Campbell also pointed out guidelines from his office by informing Massachusetts residents “rights that do not have and cannot be eliminated by the stroke of a Sharpie and who remain protected by virtue of our state laws”.
He said that the orientation is of the same importance in their litigation efforts and that it includes the freedom of organizations to implement diversity initiatives, of doctors to provide affirmative gender care and that residents understand the application of immigration.
As the federal government has withdrawn or withdrawn the application of the regulations, Campbell said that its office has also increased its work on consumer protection, civil rights and environmental supervision.
“We are doing everything, while the President seeks to weaken, arm or eliminate various agencies,” including the civil rights division of consumer financial protection and the Department of Justice.
In the office of the Illinois Attorney General, Raoul, the preparations for Trump’s new orders began a year ago, when the president was still a candidate seeking a historic political comeback, Raoul stated.
He said that his lawyers wanted to contain the “enormous power” granted to the President and to say that he is within the limits of the Constitution.
“In our democracy, there are limits in this power and we have challenged cases where the administrator has clearly crossed a line,” said Raoul. “If I do not agree or not with President Trump on his policy agenda, he must act legally that he is consistent with the Constitution and the Congress of Laws has promulgated Congress.”