Litigation with the Trump Administration

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Recently, I heard an encouraging briefing from Attorney General Campbell‘s senior litigators about the status of litigation with the Trump administration. The briefing covered a wide range of issues, but my main take away was that litigation in the federal courts is still meaningful. Reading the news, one might have the impression that the rule of the law is a thing of the past. However, in this briefing we learned that the Trump administration often loses in court. And, in the cases where our Attorney General has sued on behalf of the Commonwealth, when the administration has lost in court, it has followed court orders: Funds initially withheld have been released as ordered.

The graphic below was shared by the Attorney General’s office for public release.

Published by Will Brownsberger

Will Brownsberger is State Senator from the Second Suffolk and Middlesex District.

67 replies on “Litigation with the Trump Administration”

  1. This sounds good! A glimmer of hope, thank you. But it seems the administration loses in court a lot, and just does what it wants anyway. I hope the $3.012 billion saved is actually in our coffers.

    I expected it to be bad, but Trump has exceeded all my expectations of disaster. I just hope there is a chance to take back one part of Congress at the midterms, unless the Republicans can succeed in gerrymandering all the votes. Such a nightmare.

    1. 40% of New England vote Republican yet there is 0 representatives in the House. Massachusetts has not had a Republican in House in over 30 years. Complete and total control. Do you think gerrymandering is something Dems specialize in?

          1. Good idea. Provided the commissioners’ independence could be guaranteed. I personally would like such a commission to be composed mostly of utterly cynical individuals who deeply distrust the motives of the political class in both major parties. And who have a demonstrable track record of public statements or published work to prove it. If they clearly dislike both sides and don’t particularly care which one wins elections, they would have no obvious reason to favor one over the other in a redistricting scheme. But a token die-hard Republican and another token true-believer Democrat on the commission probably would be helpful…each could point to possible hidden partisan flaws, unfavorable to their own cause, in an otherwise innocent-looking plan for drawing district lines. Flaws so subtly Machiavellian that even the non-partisan cynics who initially roughed-out the scheme might not notice them. After all, the commissioners would want to draw upon the accumulated experience of all sorts of advisors and consultants to help them turn out a really good plan. What if some of those consultants are not quite as saintly and unbiased as their credentials would lead us to believe? Hence the wisdom of including a couple of seasoned battle-scarred veterans of the political wars on the redistricting commission. Hey…former poachers make the best game wardens. (Just joking. Of course no redistricting plan will bring the Republican party anywhere close to real power in Massachusetts anytime soon. The business community will perforce have to continue working through compliant Democrats.)

      2. Yes, all the while the MA residents are struggling to pay their bills since everthing doubled in price for food, utilities, gas, etc while Biden and Democrats (or whoever was really in charge) was in the White House. However, I will point out that gas is half the price it was under Biden. the Republicans and Independent s voices are definitely purposely excluded by gerrymandering by Democrats in MA, and many other states. How can one-third of the Commonwealth be Red voters, but have not one seat of representation unless gerrymandered?

        1. At last visit, regular gas was at $3.15. Stop lying and do some homework around how districting works. It’s certainly not the Texas model.

  2. The rule of law is being upheld by the Trump administration. I predict the uprising being encouraged by Democrat Marxists will fail. More and more people are waking up.

    1. You are so lost. You’re right about people waking up, but waking up to how corrupt the Trump administration is. White Nationalists will fail.

      1. White nationalist? Lol..give me a break. We have a commie Marxist indoctrination problem with a fetish on transing kids. I’ve never met a “white nationalist”. I have met a ton of lunatic leftists who hate themselves and our Country.

        1. How about you explain the difference between socialism and communism for us? You got the lunacy part right. Whew!

          1. Problem is, Mamdani isn’t being straight just like to “No Kings,” ‘50501’ cabal isn’t being straight.

            He claims to be a Social Democrat, but his true aim is to “seize the means of production” and to “globalize the intifada.”

            His farcical modulation may be sufficient for the already self-deluded mainstream Democrats, bit trust your eyes when when he flashes that devilish razor blade smile.

    2. You obviously hate Democrats, but “Democratic Marxists” is a stupid meme, not to mention an oxymoron. But it’s true that more people are waking up — to the Administration’s fascist and racist dog whistles, its threats to civil liberties, its corrupt crony capitalism, and illegal executive actions. More people protested these things on October 18th than have ever taken to the streets before in America, anywhere from 5 to 8 million of us. Go ahead, label us all Marxists or Antifa if it gives you satisfaction, but saying that Trump upholds the rule of law given the hundreds of court cases his administration is facing nationwide for violations of statute and constitutional law is simply and sadly incorrect.

      1. Most of the court cases have gone the administration’s way once it went to higher courts. Marxism has been taught in our schools and culture for a long time. But just as it failed to take traction in 60s, it will fail again.
        The Federal govt needs to get tough with these insurrectionist mayors and Governors who are encouraging violence. Time for arresting those who are trying to over throw our Federal govt.

      2. How many million voted Trump in to legally enforce the law and do exactly what he is doing? That is all that counts vs your antifa no Kings protest. If Republicans put Trump into the general election (like Democrats did with Kamala Harris) you would have had a fit. Your party skipped to the primary comma crowned comma without a single vote comma and try to erase trump from the ballot when your legal warfare crashed and burned. that’s not democracy that’s authoritarianism with a blue sticker. 77, 300, 000 voters showed up for NO QUEENS DAY on NOV 5, 2024. That beats your NO KINGS antifa-hate America day.

        2. Yes. Exactly. The people behind the “No Kings” groups are not being straight with us, they are false.

          If the No Kings groups were true to their name they wouldn’t be alienating all of America’s conservatives and Republicans and the plurality of Democrats with their unreasonable, extremist, coercive, dogmatic, un-American and anti-Western agenda. If they genuinely thought the monarchic peril were so great they would set-aside any lesser concerns and reach out to all Americans Republican and Democrat alike. Instead, they are opportunistically hacking away along partisan lines to further their solipsistic, juvenile agenda to bring America low.

          1. P. s., Beacon Hill is aiding and abetting by not vociferously opposing their bankrupt ideology. In fact and in deed MassDems are pandering to these antiAmericanists and are defanging and disarming the very Democratic Party when they deludedly think they can hold this antisemites tiger by the tail.

    3. You obviously hate Democrats, but “Democratic Marxists” is a stupid meme, not to mention an oxymoron. But it’s true that more people are waking up — to the Administration’s fascist and racist dog whistles, its threats to civil liberties, its corrupt crony capitalism, and illegal executive actions. More people protested these things on October 18th than have ever taken to the streets before in America, anywhere from 5 to 8 million of us. Go ahead, label us all Marxists or Antifa if it gives you satisfaction, but saying that Trump upholds the rule of law given the hundreds of court cases his administration is facing nationwide for violations of statute and constitutional law is simply and sadly not true.

    4. Agreed.
      Illegal aliens are illegal.
      So are illegal immigrants who have committed crimes.
      Will does not and will not understand that.
      Neither do 90% of his liberal constituents and Democrats.
      So they riot.

  3. What a pile of bullshit. I contacted this so-called representative months ago, around the time of the Tufts kidnapping, and he poo-pooed the whole thing, talking about how the court system was going to hold up, blahblahblah. Hey Will, the supreme court, which is the last word in everything, is ILLEGIMATE, via the McConnell machinations. The executive branch is also illegitimate (is there any doubt?) The Article-1 branch, led by little mikey johnson? hahaha.
    Conclusion — the entire federal govt is illegitimate. That leaves the state. Massachusetts is a great state. I hope that you will do what you can to salvage it. You are running unopposed, I assume? That’s a shame. Because We The People deserve to have someone representing us who understands and says that this is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.

        1. Not sure where that pedophile comment comes from? If you support your President…the President that was duly elected 3 times, not 2, by over half the country and won the popular and electoral and all the swing states, makes you a pedophile lover? I guess that makes most of the country that? All so brain washed. Dare you to watch for a whole week different news sources and maybe start seeing things from different view

    2. 14 people in a boat murdered today. But, hey, they were Venezuelans. Citizens kidnapped every day, by masked, unidentified goons, with $50,000 bonuses and $100,000 salaries. $230M check signed by the demented orange menance to the benefit of the demented orange menance. And so much more. Apparently you’re okay with all of that. Sleep well at night? Somehow I’m sure you do.

      1. Each one of those drug boats kills thousands with fentanyl overdoses. This is war. Time to take out narco terrorists

  4. Thank you for passing along that update, Will, it’s much appreciated. It’s important for funding approved already by Congress to be distributed. If Republicans want to change that in the future, they have the power to do that for the time being at least. But they should make those changes in the way our Constitution envisioned. Thanks to Attorney General Campbell for all her work.

  5. Gee, do you think AG Campbell will represent the approx. 100,000 people in Massachusetts who have been defunded for SNAP and WIC for the remainder of the year, as well as all other Citizens denied Federal government functions due to the “No” votes by Senators Markey and Warren? After all, they are supposed to serve for the good of the Citizenry and not the Democratic party.

    1. The Feds prosecute corruption in Mass.
      The AG and Auditor don’t have the guts to go after corruption.

  7. As I understand it, the Trump administration is withholding these funds because of Massachusetts “Sanctuary” policies and failure to cooperate with Federal authorities on immigration. So if Massachusetts stopped spending taxpayer money on illegal immigrants and followed federal immigration law, they’d save money, reduce crime, not spend taxpayer money on these lawsuits and then get the Federal funds.

    1. Massachusetts doesn’t cooperate with fascists. That’s a good thing in my book, no matter what the cost.

      1. The Dems are clearly the tyrants. Forced vaccines and masks or loose your job, family, right to travel, etc, etc. So many Leftist loved that power. Total Salem witch trial hysteria we are supposed to forget about.

    2. According to the Constitution, funds appropriated by congress cannot be withheld by whim. A tenet that this administration doesn’t understand or respect. They can’t just withhold SNAP funds because they want to. Besides, most SNAP recipients reside in red states. The republicans are shooting themselves in the foot & they won’t get away with trying to fool all of the people all of the time. Of course, there will always be some who will be.

      1. You do not comprehend what is going on. Trump and the Republicans are not withholding SNAP. If the Democrats would sign a clean resolution, which is just keeping the budget the same for now, while it would give them more time to negotiate the spending budget, the SNAP would be paid out. They also were given opportunity to sign single issue CR to apy military and air control but Democrats voted no. But no, the Democrats are playing games because they are holding out for the illegals (read pg 57 of the CR) to get their healthcare back again which the big beautiful bill took away, and all the other special pet projects that they want to spend your tax dollars that were taken away in the BB bill (like sending 13.4 million to zimbabwa for “civic engagement, 24.6 million on climate resilence in Honduras, 3.9 million LGBTQ “democracy grants” in the West Balkans, 2.9 million for the desert locus “risk reduction” in the Horn of Africa, and 2 million for “organizing for feminist democrat principles” in horn of Africa. The USDA and Trump executive action can be only taken to pay out SNAP for ” disaster relief”. They cannot pay for regular benefits, which by the way SNAP is paying a whole bunch of illegals too. Congress, specifically Democrats need to stop playing games.

        1. Exactly right Suasn. Will shoul explain things like this to his constituents.
          It looks like to me the Dems want chaos and rioting. Snap being suddenly turned off will do just that.

  8. How about concentrating on local traffic issues which affect everyone?With the amount of red light/ stop sign runners and cars parked facing oncoming traffic…Are you against safe streets?

  9. Let’s all support the unvetted 10 to 15 million illegal immigrants that Biden let in.
    That’s what liberals want.
    They don’t?
    Then tell us what exactly what they want.
    To let them all stay? Yes.
    Each to have a year-long trial which will take 500 years? Yes.
    So glad that Watertown and Belmont citizens have opened their nice homes to illegals.
    Oh wait, they haven’t.

  10. “The more I see of people, the more I love my dog.” Attributed to Frederick the Great. I wonder what Old Fritz would say after listening to a certain sector of the contemporary American electorate? For sheer meanness of spirit, they excel. I’m certainly no better a person (or a citizen) than I have to be. But at least I try not to punch down when I get into a belligerent mood. Or to pin silly ideological labels that I know are false, onto persons or parties with whom, for one reason or another, I happen to disagree. All that being said, these open public forums that the Senator provides are a very good thing. Enabling himself and all of us to take the political temperature of the room. And allowing big mouths like me to sound off.

    1. I have to applaud and thank Senator Brownsberger for his commitment to hosting this rare democratic forum.

      After over thirty of voting exclusively for Democrats and witnessing the DNC’s distain for the Constitution during the Obama and Biden regimes and the staged specter of the propped-up HRC and Harris campaigns I switched parties to now vote exclusively Republican starting this summer in time for the preliminary. Regrettably my reservations were not overcome the previous year, but nevertheless was elated last November at the spark of hope for America to claw back its exceptionalism and fortitude from those opposed to that very strength and virtue.

  12. Thanks for sharing info. The AG does a good job. New England elects moderate Republican governors or senators. Now Moderates are few and far between lately. Karoline Leavitt lost her Congressional election in NH, not a moderate.
    Immigrants, like in passed generations, are here to work, create a better life for future generations, and would like to be part of American culture. More would have applied for Amnesty under Reagan, but did not out of fear.

  14. Unfortunately, we live in a tightly controlled one-party state that only represents 60% of the state.

    1. Well, you could probably move to Idaho, South Dakota, or North Dakota. The Republicans have a solid lock on those state governments. Lots of interesting things to do out there, too…watch the cows, listen to the roosters, apply to the Feds for a bailout when your crop goes roots-up during a flood or burns to a crisp in a drought. Might be worth a try.

      1. Not funny and very condescending. Do you wish for 40% of Massachusetts voters, those who are center-right and right-leaning, to also move away? Would the solution be to replace them only with left-thinking & voting people – especially those who cannot make it without government handouts?

        Democrats are for diversity, supposedly, but never for diversity of thought. I’m a center-right person and unhappy that center-right views are getting squashed and disregarded here. And no, I’m not moving anywhere – this is my home state.

      2. Not funny and very condescending. Do you wish for 40% of Massachusetts voters, those who are center-right and right-leaning, to also move away? Would the solution be to replace them only with left-thinking & voting people – especially those who cannot make it without government handouts?

        Democrats are for diversity, supposedly, but never for diversity of thought. I’m a center-right person and unhappy that center-right views are getting squashed and disregarded here. And no, I’m not moving anywhere – this is my home state.

        2. Sorry for the double posting (unintentional). The first posting didn’t post, and then two of them posted.

        3. Exactly. Uniformity of thought and the echo chamber is the liberal’s superpower.

          My peek into two such almost airtight echo chambers: Bluesky and Universal Hub revealed ad hominem in the place of debate and calls to “move” at voicing criticism of state Democrats. (The very liberals who decry people who say “America, love it or leave it.”)

          I’m still waiting Bluesky btw. The conservatism viewpoint and skepticism is apparently a violation of TOS.

          I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition, but I should have seeing as wokeness and Socprog is predicated on the uncritical supplication to their pre-Enlightenment dogma.

          The Socprogs are the new fount of fascistic intolerance.

  15. How many million voted Trump in to legally enforce the law and do exactly what he is doing? That is all that counts vs your antifa no Kings protest. If Republicans put Trump into the general election (like Democrats did with Kamala Harris) you would have had a fit. Your party skipped to the primary comma crowned comma without a single vote comma and try to erase trump from the ballot when your legal warfare crashed and burned. that’s not democracy that’s authoritarianism with a blue sticker. 77, 300, 000 voters showed up for NO QUEENS DAY on NOV 5, 2024. That beats your NO KINGS antifa-hate America day.

  16. Work to bring insurance rates down. Pass the clean CR and stop putting the squeeze on taxpayers to fund this welfare scheme. The Covid emergency is over. Democrats and Republicans are in the pocket of the insurance companies and healthcare industry to the point we can only talk about taxpayers subsidizing insurance companies via taxpayer funded robber premiums.

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