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The Role of the State Attorney General - Nicholas Smyth - Spring 2022

Supplemental Reading: How Attorneys General Became Democrats’ Bulwark Against Trump, Alex Burns, New York Times, Feb. 6, 2017

Democratic Attorneys General organized early in the days of the Trump Administration to oppose its new immigration policies.  Republican Attorneys General immediately organized to support it.  https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ag-paxton-leads-12-state-scotus-brief-travel-ban-case

This long and sometimes bitter litigation was ultimately resolved in the United States Supreme Court.  https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trump-v-hawaii-3/