Feb 20, 2019 · An adviser to the attorney general, Sarah Lovenheim, told The Hill that the office has secured 27 legal victories against the Trump administration so far …
Sep 26, 2019 · 62 lawsuits and counting, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra adding another to the pile Wednesday. This latest lawsuit over the Trump administration’s rollback on regulations of the ...
Mar 06, 2019 · Attorney General Xavier Becerra added another lawsuit on Monday to the list of 46 California has already filed against the Trump administration — …
Nov 16, 2020 · Only six lawsuits against the Trump administration involved a Republican attorney general. California's Democratic attorney general, Xavier Becerra, has been part of the most multistate lawsuits ...
Jan 20, 2021 · 20 Jan 2021 2:31 am. On Tuesday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed nine lawsuits against the Trump Administration, less than 24 hours before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. The filings on Tuesday bring the total number of lawsuits by Becerra, who is President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Health and …
California's Democratic attorney general, Xavier Becerra, has been part of the most multistate lawsuits, according to Nolette's data.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat, whose state has been a plaintiff in dozens of cases against the Trump administration, said the White House adopted extreme positions that in her view flouted laws and required consistent action.
Greg Zoeller, a Republican who was Indiana's attorney general from 2009 to 2017, said the "dysfunction of the legislative branch" was a big reason Obama pushed through executive orders and administrative rules of his own, which alarmed Republican attorneys general.
Becerra said the lawsuit filed Friday, like the 99 others, challenges the president’s authority to change federal policies in ways that harm California and its residents. The attorney general, who was first appointed to the post in 2017 and was elected in 2018, said he did not expect to have to file so many lawsuits.
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Never in the history of the United States elections has this happened before. To make matters more complicated, the lawsuits were on both sides.
It is a very complicated scenario. He is a billionaire who craves the limelight. Hence, it is understandable that it is so easy for Trump to be involved in several legal challenges. Many of these lawsuits were about business or financial transactions that went sour. Others had to do with defamation and several allegations of sexual harassment.
So far, Trump has won around 451 of these lawsuits. He has lost about 40 in all. In about 500 of the lawsuits, judges threw out the cases that the plaintiffs had against Trump.
There are thousands of lawsuits involving Trump. But, there are some of them that stand out. They are as follows: