Bloomberg Law
March 23, 2017, 11:38 PM UTC

The Blue State Attorneys General Resisting Trump

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By Erik Larson, Esmé E Deprez and Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg Businessweek

With Democrats outnumbered in Congress, a coalition of blue state attorneys general has emerged as the strongest resistance to Donald Trump’s conservative agenda. Together they’ve notched back-to-back victories against Trump’s two attempts to instill a travel ban against several Muslim-majority nations. They now hope to build on that success to form a united front against Trump’s expected efforts to roll back financial and environmental regulation, plus the GOP’s planned repeal of Obamacare.

In February, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Minnesota’s Lori Swanson led the way in derailing ...

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