“Annapolis Democrats spent taxpayer dollars on a special mission for one reason: To rewrite the Maryland Constitution and eliminate the last remaining Republican congressional seat,” state Del. Matt Morgan (R-St. Mary’s) said in a press release announcing the lawsuit. “Like a banana republic, they suspended the rules, ignored statutory deadlines, and treated the Constitution as an obstacle to be removed.”
Rosenzweig’s blog, which had caused such a firestorm in conservative media, had been defunct for over six years at the time of his firing. Most of its content was broadly apolitical, dealing more with travel, sports, and other “anodyne topics,” though Rosenzweig did share a series of critical observations about Trump and other political candidates. Rosenzweig, among other things, called Trump “mentally unfit” and a “white supremacist.”
The White House is currently attempting to implement another round of tariffs through Section 301 of the Trade Act. While Trump says the tariffs are intended to combat issues of forced labor in the supply chain, the lawsuit claims that this is merely a pretext to ignore unfavorable court orders.
“Congress did not confer a general auditing power to the DOJ over state election officials,” the judge said.
“The Affordable Care Act was designed to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. But once again, this Administration is moving in the wrong direction by adopting harmful provisions that push consumers into bare-bones plans and strip away critical protections,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. “
“FEMA is threatening our counterterrorism funding again,” Jackson said. “The last time they tried this, we took them to court and won. Now they’re trying again, and I expect we’ll beat them again.”
“What you’re going to hear on the tapes […] is the state of Joe Biden years before he ran for president, when a special prosecutor said he has memory issues,” said Jeffrey Clark, vice president for litigation at the Oversight Project, one of the firms pressing for access to the tapes.
“Instead of working with us to keep the public safe and lower costs for hardworking New Jerseyans, the Trump Administration has recklessly and illegally gutted federal funding for public safety, disaster preparedness, scientific research, clean water, and more,” New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said in a press release.
The Trump administration, for its part, has described the lawsuit as a bad-faith effort to “enable further ICC overreach.”
“Congress long ago made clear that Maryland cannot deny educational opportunities to American citizens that it gives to illegal aliens in the State,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in a press release. “By granting illegal aliens in-state tuition, Maryland is not only violating federal law but subsidizing education for illegal aliens.”