Tag: Democratic attorneys general

New Abortion Pill Complication Research Challenges FDA Commissioner’s Disinterest in Restrictions

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Pro-life pregnancy centers are fighting Democratic attorneys general in court for the right to tell women they may be able to reverse chemical abortions by taking supplemental progesterone, a natural pregnancy hormone, to prevent mifepristone from binding to pregnancy receptors. New York’s Letitia James is now trying to overturn an injunction against her.

Texas Republican AG Ken Paxton secured a $100,000 judgment against a New York doctor for telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone to Texas residents, who can’t get it legally in the Lone Star State, but the Empire State refused to enforce the judgment under its shield law.

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Attorney General Kris Mayes Sues New Trump Administration Two More Times, over DOGE Cuts to the Federal Government

Rachel Alexander
Arizona AG Kris Mayes

Attorney General Kris Mayes joined other Democratic attorneys general filing two more lawsuits against the Trump administration on Friday. One of the lawsuits challenged the pausing of controversial grants issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The second contested the dismantling of three agencies that assist unions, promote minority-owned businesses, and give money to libraries for Drag Queen Story Hour for children. Mayes, who has developed a reputation for aggressively going after Republicans, has filed 13 previous lawsuits with other attorneys general against the Trump administration this year.

The 21 attorneys general argued in the lawsuits that the Trump administration was interfering with Congress’s authority. However, those agencies are under the executive branch, not Congress. 

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Attorney General Kris Mayes and Other Democratic AGs Sue Trump Administration over Laying Off Federal Employees

Rachel Alexander
Kris Mayes

Attorney General Kris Mayes, who has pushed back aggressively against the Trump administration since January including filing nine lawsuits, joined a lawsuit with 20 other Democratic attorneys general on Thursday suing to stop the layoffs of half of the U.S. Department of Education employees. The lawsuit comes on the heels of a broader lawsuit she joined last week with her Democratic colleagues suing over the layoffs of probationary federal employees at nearly two dozen agencies, and a lawsuit filed last month over Trump cutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

A press release from the Department of Education announcing the cuts said it was “part of the Department of Education’s final mission,” implying the agency is going to be shut down, which Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has called for.

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