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President Donald Trump's tribunal battles person not ended present that he’s backmost successful the Oval Office — instead, dozens person piled up against his medication arsenic Democrats and activists vow to combat Trump and his policies successful the judicial system.
Trump faced 4 transgression indictments during the interim of his archetypal and 2nd administrations, which landed accusations of "lawfare" connected the nationalist signifier arsenic Trump maintained his innocence and slammed the cases arsenic efforts by the Democratic Party to wounded his governmental chances for re-election during the 2024 cycle. Despite the left-wing efforts to ensnare Trump successful a web of ineligible cases, Trump was re-elected president — with a resume that present includes "convicted felon" and a celebrated mugshot often displayed connected pro-Trump apparel.
Upon Trump’s inauguration Jan. 20, helium has issued near-daily enforcement orders and actions to displacement the national authorities to autumn successful enactment with his "America First" policies, including snuffing retired authorities overspending and mismanagement, banning biological men from competing successful women’s sports, and deporting thousands of amerciable immigrants who flooded the federation nether the Biden administration.
Trump has signed much than 60 enforcement orders, successful summation to different enforcement actions, arsenic of Tuesday, which has resulted successful astatine slightest 49 lawsuits against Trump and his administration, Fox News Digital has found.
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New York Attorney General said she is "prepared" to inquire the justice to prehend erstwhile President Donald Trump's assets if helium cannot wage the $354 cardinal judgement handed down successful his civilian fraud case. (ABC News/Screenshot | Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty Images)
The lawsuits travel arsenic Democratic elected officials fume implicit the 2nd Trump administration’s policies, astir notably the instauration of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is investigating assorted national agencies successful the hunt of cutting authorities spending fat, corruption and mismanagement of funds.
"Right now, we're going to support absorption connected the request to look retired for mundane New Yorkers and mundane Americans who are nether battle by an utmost MAGA Republican docket that is trying to chopped taxes for billionaires, donors and affluent corporations and past instrumentality New Yorkers and working-class Americans crossed the state with the bill," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said successful January.
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"That's not acceptable," helium said. "We are going to combat it legislatively. We are going to combat it successful the courts. We're going to combat it successful the streets."
President Donald Trump has signed much than 60 enforcement orders, successful summation to different enforcement actions, arsenic of Tuesday, which has resulted successful astatine slightest 49 lawsuits against Trump and his administration. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
"We are gonna beryllium successful your face, we are gonna beryllium connected your a--es, and we are going to marque definite you recognize what ideology looks like, and this ain’t it," Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said astatine a protestation implicit DOGE and its chair, Elon Musk, earlier successful February.
With conscionable implicit 3 weeks backmost successful the Oval Office, astatine slightest 49 lawsuits person been filed against Trump oregon the national authorities implicit Trump’s policies and enforcement actions. Among the database of plaintiffs are a fistful of groups that brought distant suits against Trump successful erstwhile years, astir notably New York Attorney General Leitita James, arsenic good arsenic labour unions and left-wing advocacy groups.
James, a erstwhile metropolis assembly subordinate successful New York and nationalist defender, launched her tally for New York lawyer general during the 2018 cycle, portion emphasizing that if she were elected she would aggressively prosecute ineligible charges against Trump.
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"I’m moving for lawyer wide due to the fact that I volition ne'er beryllium acrophobic to situation this illegitimate president erstwhile our cardinal rights are astatine stake," James declared successful September 2018. "From the Muslim ban, to efforts to deport immigrants, to denying transgender students the quality to take immoderate bath they want, rolling backmost regulations to support our planet, colluding with overseas powers, putting profits implicit people, dividing america successful ways we haven’t seen successful generations."
"And what is fueling this campaign, what is fueling my psyche close now, is Trump and his abuses, abuses against immigrants, against women, against our environment. We request an lawyer wide who volition basal up to Donald Trump," she said during a statement successful August 2018.
James won her predetermination that year, astir 2 years into Trump’s archetypal administration, and took a triumph thigh portion vowing to exposure the "con man."
New York Attorney General Letitia James launched her tally for New York lawyer wide during the 2018 cycle, portion emphasizing that if she were elected she would aggressively prosecute ineligible charges against President Donald Trump. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Congressional Black Caucus Foundation)
James brought distant a civilian fraud suit against Trump, the Trump Organization and its elder enactment successful 2022, often sitting successful the courtroom passim the proceedings, and celebrated the prosecution of Trump successful the Manhattan transgression proceedings implicit the 34 counts of falsifying concern records. Trump was ordered to wage a $454 cardinal civilian fraud judgement successful James’ suit against him, which is presently connected appeal.
All in, James said backmost successful November 2024 that her bureau took astir 100 ineligible actions against Trump’s archetypal medication — vowing to restart the efforts during the 2nd administration.
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"We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result. And my bureau has been preparing for respective months due to the fact that we've been present before," James said pursuing Trump’s predetermination triumph successful November 2024. "We faced this situation before, and we utilized the regularisation of instrumentality to combat back. And we are prepared to combat backmost erstwhile again because, arsenic the lawyer wide of this large state, it is my occupation to support and support the rights of New Yorkers and the regularisation of law. And I volition not shrink from that responsibility."
So acold successful 2025, James has spearheaded at slightest 5 ineligible actions against the Trump administration, including starring a conjugation of authorities attorneys wide to writer the national authorities to halt DOGE’s entree to the Treasury Department’s interior systems, arsenic good arsenic different lawsuit related to the Trump admin slashing assistance backing to probe institutions and universities.
"As the richest antheral successful the world, Elon Musk is not utilized to being told ‘no,’ but successful our country, nary 1 is supra the law," James said of the DOGE suit. "President Trump does not person the powerfulness to springiness distant Americans’ backstage accusation to anyone helium chooses, and helium cannot chopped national payments approved by Congress. Musk and DOGE person nary authorization to entree Americans’ backstage accusation and immoderate of our country’s astir delicate data. I americium taking enactment to support our accusation secure, and to forestall immoderate unconstitutional frost connected indispensable backing that Americans trust connected each day."
Trump slammed New York arsenic the "most corrupt State successful the Union" successful a Truth Social station connected Tuesday, calling connected even-handed judges and elected officials to crush the "lawfare" successful the Empire State.
"We request large Judges and Politicians to assistance hole New York, and to halt the benignant of Lawfare that was launched against me, from falsely valuing Mar-a-Lago astatine $18 Million Dollars, erstwhile it is worth, perhaps, 100 times that magnitude (The corrupt justice was replaced by different judge, lone to beryllium instantly enactment backmost connected the lawsuit erstwhile the Democrat governmental leaders recovered retired that a alteration of judges was made. It has go a large embarrassment for the New York Judicial System!)," helium posted to Truth Social, referring to James’ civilian fraud lawsuit against Trump.
Labor unions that antecedently sued the archetypal Trump medication are besides backmost successful court. (Jabin Botsford/Pool via USA TODAY NETWORK)
"To a pistillate that I had nary thought who she was, making a FAKE and ridiculous accusation, to a ‘case’ that was made up by a corrupt and highly conflicted Judge successful bid to criminally attack maine for governmental purposes," helium continued, referring to two-year E. Jean Carroll tribunal cases.
Labor unions that antecedently sued the archetypal Trump medication are besides backmost successful court, including the American Federation of Teachers suing implicit DOGE’s entree to backstage accusation astatine the Education and Treasury departments, and the American Federation of Government Employees suing the medication successful astatine slightest 2 cases related to DOGE and national employment policies nether the 47th president.
"We wouldn't bring truthful galore lawsuits if they wouldn't interruption the instrumentality truthful often," Andrew Huddleston, American Federation of Government Employees' director of communications, told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked astir the lawsuits.
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While the American Civil Liberties Union — which took astatine slightest 400 ineligible actions against the archetypal Trump medication — filed a suit against the 2nd Trump medication earlier successful February regarding an enforcement bid that prevents transgender and nonbinary individuals from changing their passports to bespeak their sex individuality and not their biologic sex.
Another nonprofit, the State Democracy Defenders Fund, recently filed a suit connected behalf of FBI agents who investigated Trump-related cases successful an effort to artifact the DOJ from releasing their names. The State Democracy Defenders Fund antecedently was progressive successful different Trump-related cases, including filing an amicus little successful January advocating that Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan condemnation Trump successful the Manhattan lawsuit conscionable days up of his inauguration.
President Donald Trump repeatedly seethed that "lawfare" was moving amok of American politics, including, near to right, erstwhile Special Counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis. (Getty Images)
Ahead of taking office, Trump repeatedly seethed that "lawfare" was moving amok of American politics, often targeting James, Merchan, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile peculiar counsel Jack Smith, Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and others.
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"They're playing with the courts, arsenic you know, they've been playing with the courts for 4 years," Trump said during a property league astatine Mar-a-Lago aft Congress had certified his predetermination triumph successful January. "Probably got maine much votes due to the fact that I got the highest fig of votes ever gotten by a Republican by far, actually, by a lot. And, you know, we had a large election, truthful I conjecture it didn't work. But adjacent to this day, they're playing with the courts and their affable judges that similar to effort and marque everybody happy... It's called lawfare. It's called weaponization of justice."
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