Partisan coalitions of state attorneys general are a new wrinkle in national politicsThese rapid-fire legal actions reflect the growing influence of AGs on the national stage. Democratic AGs are more unified against Trump than Republican AGs are in defending himThis shift toward increasingly partisan AG coalitions has some exceptions. On DACA, for example, nearly all Democratic AGs have joined the challenge to Trump’s move to end the program. This may be explained in part by Republican AGs’ hesitation to sue a president of their own party. The same Democratic AG coalition that’s defending DACA had already attacked various iterations of the president’s travel ban.

Source: Washington Post October 23, 2017 11:04 UTC