Neronha’s office was doubly busy on Monday because it also joined a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts challenging the Trump administration’s funding freeze on wind energy.
The attorney general’s office has made it easy to track each lawsuit here, but here’s an overview.
In February, a federal judge in Boston blocked an order by President Trump that would end birthright citizenship for American-born children of immigrants who are in the country illegally or temporarily, becoming the fourth judge to bar its enforcement while a flurry of lawsuits challenging its constitutionality are pending.
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A judge in Rhode Island granted a temporary restraining order against President Trump’s federal funding freeze, halting the implementation of the administration’s sweeping ideological review of spending.
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There are two DOGE-related lawsuits, one in New York and one in New Mexico. In New York, a federal judge in Manhattan extended a ban on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency accessing sensitive Treasury Department information, but rejected broader restrictions.
In New Mexico, a judge denied a request for a temporary restraining order against certain DOGE cuts.
In March, a federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing National Institutes of Health payments for research overhead, a decision that suggests plaintiffs seeking to overturn the sweeping policy change are likely to eventually succeed.
In April, the Supreme Court blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.
Twenty states filed a lawsuit in March to stop the Trump administration from dismantling the US Department of Education, two days after half of the agency’s staff were laid off as part of sweeping cuts to the agency.
In April, a federal judge said she will temporarily block President Trump’s administration from cutting billions in federal dollars that support COVID-19 initiatives and public health projects throughout the country.
In April, a judge blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form.
Rhode Island is among 17 states that filed suit challenging delays in the review of NIH grant applications and the termination of already-issued grants.
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Libraries, Museums, and Workers
In April, 21 attorneys general filed suit in federal court in Rhode Island over drastic cuts made to three agencies that help oversee funding for museums and libraries, seek to support minority-owned businesses, and resolve labor disputes peacefully.
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In April, 19 attorneys general challenged the the U.S. Department of Education’s threat to withhold federal funding from state and local agencies that refuse to abandon programs and policies that promote equal access to education in K-12 classrooms across the nation.
You can read the press release here.
In April, two dozen states filed suit over dramatic cuts to AmeriCorps, alleging the Trump administration is trying to “dismantle” the volunteer service organization as part of its sweeping federal cost-cutting campaign.
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Attorneys general from 19 states and Washington, D.C., filed a federal lawsuit on Monday arguing the Trump administration unlawfully “dismantled” the US Department of Health and Human Services through restructuring that has halted crucial public health initiatives from programs monitoring maternal and newborn health to continuing care for 9/11 first responders and survivors.
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A coalition of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the development of wind energy.
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