This might be the juiciest political bombshell of the week. A confidential document has surfaced revealing that nearly two dozen Democratic state attorneys general were cooking up a coordinated legal assault on Donald Trump way back in April 2024, months before he even won the election.
Let that sink in for a moment. According to Conservative Brief, these officials signed onto a secret agreement roughly three months prior to Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race. That means they were plotting their litigation strategy about seven months before Trump's victory and nine months before he took the oath of office.
The scheme is called the "Project for Federal Accountability," and boy, has it produced results. Since January 2025, state attorneys general have lobbed close to 100 lawsuits at the Trump administration. That is not a typo. One hundred legal challenges, all orchestrated through what appears to be a pre-planned political operation disguised as routine governance.
Former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, a Republican who now says he frequently backs Democratic candidates, called the whole thing highly unusual. He told The Center Square that while he signed multistate legal agreements during his tenure from 2001 to 2013, those involved active litigation. He had never witnessed states organizing potential challenges so far ahead of an administration that hadn't even been elected yet.
"That's not normal at all," Shurtleff bluntly stated.
He also revealed that he gets bombarded with fundraising pitches from AG candidates whose entire sales pitch boils down to "give me cash so I can fight Trump." His verdict? Probably not the greatest use of a state attorney general's time and resources.
Now here is where the scoreboard gets wild. California AG Rob Bonta leads the pack with 82 lawsuits filed. Colorado's Phil Weiser has jumped into at least 75. Washington's Nick Brown clocked in at 70, and Arizona's Kris Mayes has joined 46.
Bonta held a press conference Tuesday where he declared with a straight face that all of this litigation was "apolitical." Sure, Rob. Totally apolitical. He also casually mentioned that California taxpayers have shelled out roughly $19 million on these legal battles.
"If he doesn't want to get sued, all he has to do is follow the law," Bonta quipped, adding that Trump "shows no sign of slowing down, so we will continue to sue him."
According to Just Security, a nonpartisan publication affiliated with New York University, 11 of these cases concluded in favor of the plaintiffs while four were tossed or resolved in the federal government's favor. Countless others remain pending. Critics suspect the AGs may be strategically filing cases before judges appointed by Democratic presidents to secure favorable rulings.
Perhaps the most eyebrow raising detail? The confidential agreement specifically included plans to keep certain information hidden from the public. The document explicitly referenced avoiding "any waiver of the confidentiality of those privileged materials."
And the partisan split could not be more obvious. At least 22 Democratic attorneys general signed onto this agreement. The number of Republican AGs who participated? A big, fat zero.
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