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State AGs have filed at least 145 lawsuits against Trump…

The count covers lawsuits from state attorneys general since January twenty twenty-five, and the Examiner ties the surge to a Congress that has largely stayed out of the fight.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorState attorneys general have filed at least one hundred forty-five lawsuits against the Trump administration since he returned to the White House in January twenty twenty-five, according to the Washington Examiner.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat is already more than the one hundred thirty-eight filed during his entire first term.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA personal best! I want a banner and a sheet cake to celebrate this remarkable achievement in lawsuit-filing excellence.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe report says it got here because Congress went AWOL, which is the paper's framing of why so many suits became possible.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Examiner also says state AGs filed seventy-eight multistate suits against the Obama administration and seventy-six against George W. Bush.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSeventy-six.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThose were the training wheels, Hank. Now the states are riding a motorcycle through a courthouse, and I think that's beautiful.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe numbers aren't cleanly comparable across those terms, and the excerpt doesn't say how any of these cases ended. I just keep wondering who is supposed to be at the office.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe cake is still going to be there, Hank.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNobody has shown up to cut it, so it's the only item on Capitol Hill with an attendance record.

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  3. Most voters see Congress as out of touch on spending · The Hill
  4. Gen Z and millennials run for Congress in record numbers, few reach… · Axios
  5. Suspicious letters to Congress: return address draws scrutiny · New York Post
  6. Suspicious materials sent to Schumer, other members of Congress · The Washington Post
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