Jan 30, 2017 · A Timeline of All the Times Attorney General Bob Ferguson Has Sued Trump. In today’s world of upheaval and unrest there are only two constants: the unshakeable fact of our fragile mortality and ...
Sep 26, 2019 · OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson, with the filing of the Endangered Species Act lawsuit yesterday, has now filed 50 lawsuits challenging unlawful actions taken by the Trump Administration. The 50th lawsuit challenges Trump Administration rules that significantly undermine the Endangered Species Act, a cornerstone of national conservation …
Mary L. Trump, et al. - On September 22, 2021, Trump commenced a lawsuit in New York state court against The New York Times, several journalists and his niece, Mary L. Trump, for a 2018 article detailing his taxes and finances, which he claims violates a 2001 settlement agreement signed by Mary.
Nov 14, 2020 · When the Trump administration has taken a controversial or contested executive action, seemingly as often as not, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and his team of 600 lawyers have tried to stop ...
Fitzgerald. The President is entitled to absolute immunity from liability for damages based on his official acts.
Lawsuit: Twenty-one states, led by Texas and Montana, filed a lawsuit against Biden and his administration on March 17, 2021.
WHEN CAN A STATE SUE THE UNITED STATES? State suits against the federal government are on the rise. ... Accordingly, a State may challenge federal statutes or regulations that pre- empt, or otherwise undermine the continued enforceability of, state law.
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There is a fundamental inequity in the ability of Americans to enforce their rights under the United States Constitution. If a person's constitutional rights are violated by local or state government actors, the person can sue the government actors for damages to compensate for the harm suffered.Oct 10, 2021
In the United States, the federal government has sovereign immunity and may not be sued unless it has waived its immunity or consented to suit. The United States as a sovereign is immune from suit unless it unequivocally consents to being sued. The United States Supreme Court in Price v.
The U.S. Supreme Court has characterized judicial immunity as providing "the maximum ability [of judges] to deal fearlessly and impartially with the public".
At least 156 multistate lawsuits were filed against the federal government during President Donald Trump's term in office from January 2017 to January 2021. A multistate lawsuit is a lawsuit initially filed by one state against the federal government that is later joined by multiple states.
Ferguson, 54, slim and bookish with glasses and graying brown hair, is a calm, reasoned public speaker. At 5- foot-11, he’s three inches shorter than Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who often stands with Ferguson at news conferences announcing suits, lobbing more incendiary potshots at Trump.
Richard Read is the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Seattle, covering Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Alaska and Hawaii. A former Tokyo-based foreign correspondent, he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series that explained the Asian financial crisis by following a container of French fries from a Northwest farm to a Singapore McDonald’s. He served on a team that won the Pulitzer for Public Service for exposing U.S. immigration agency abuses. Born in Scotland and raised in Boston, he has reported from all seven continents.
Trump v. Vance - In July 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the State of New York could issue a grand-jury subpoena of the President's financial records. The request was determined not to violate Article II or the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.
On December 18, 2020, the Supreme Court dismissed the case.
Trump & Republican National Committee. Roger Stone (Roger J. Stone Jr.) found guilty by a jury in November 2019 of on obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and tampering with a witness in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Trump and his team filed dozens of false and frivolous lawsuits regarding the procedures in the 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden's victory. Georgia Cobb County and DeKalb County filed lawsuits to recover costs associated with frivolous lawsuits.
In March 2021, U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) for their actions on the day the U.S. Capitol was stormed. In March 2021, two Capitol Police Officers filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump.
Washington is one of 20 states that argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this past week to defend the Affordable Care Act against the third major lawsuit seeking to throw out the landmark health care law. The Affordable Care Act is a federal law and the federal Department of Justice normally defends federal laws in court.
The Affordable Care Act is a federal law and the federal Department of Justice normally defends federal laws in court. But the Trump administration, instead, argued that the entire law should be struck down. Washington, among other states, jumped in to fill the void in defending the law. It’s been a recurring theme of the last four years.
The attorneys general have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) more than any other agency in government. All told, the EPA has faced 31 lawsuits over proposals to roll back Obama-era environmental laws or to implement new rules.
Bruce Mehlman, a lobbyist in Washington, said the lawsuits are a function of what is becoming a much broader political fight that extends beyond the Beltway. ADVERTISEMENT. House Democrats expand probe into political interference into CDC... Afghan civilian casualties hit record high amid US withdrawal.
Obama was losing 2-to-1, and he was allegedly a "constitutional law scholar.". Some of his executive orders, and his recess appointments to the NLRB, were declared unconstitutional by a unanimous Supreme Court. That includes Kagan, Sotomayor and The Notorious RBG.