California has filed over 50 lawsuits against the Trump administration claiming real, concrete injuries to its citizens.
Investigators sent the state a simple request — show us the evidence.
Jim Jordan now has their response – and his committee says everything is on the table.
Democrat Attorneys General Are Filing Frivolous Lawsuits Against Trump and Getting Caught
America First Legal – the conservative legal powerhouse founded by Trump advisor Stephen Miller – spent months firing public records requests at blue states currently suing the Trump administration.
The results were damning.
Four states suing over Trump’s transgender policies said they “lacked records” to respond to AFL’s inquiries about their alleged injuries.
Five of 20 states that joined a lawsuit over DHS accessing Medicaid data told AFL they couldn’t produce a single document to support their claims.
That lawsuit alleged those states would be harmed by the federal government identifying illegal aliens receiving taxpayer-funded benefits.
Then AFL went after the states challenging Trump’s birthright citizenship order — and got the same answer.
Arizona’s own Department of Education admitted it “does not compile or aggregate data” in any way that could back up what it told a federal judge.
Oregon’s Health Authority said there were “no responsive records” for the very expenditures it alleged in court.
Illinois said it “does not independently track the requested information.”
These states walked into federal court, told a judge they were suffering real harm from Trump’s policies, got injunctions blocking those policies – then told AFL they had no evidence of any of it.
AFL legal counsel Will Scolinos spelled it out in a letter to House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan: these attorneys general are “filing complaints premised on speculative injuries that their own client agencies cannot substantiate.”
California Has Filed 50 Lawsuits Against Trump and Cannot Prove a Single Injury
There are over 200 active cases challenging Trump administration policies in federal courts right now.
California alone has filed more than 50 – nearly double the pace of Trump’s first term.
Colorado, Minnesota, New York – all in on it.
This isn’t a legal strategy. It’s an assembly line.
AFL’s letter to Jordan names it directly: a “nationwide pattern to subvert the agenda of the Trump administration” – not through elections, not through legislation, but through judges.
Sue the administration, claim injury, get a judge to issue an injunction — and it doesn’t matter if you ever win.
Every case filed costs the administration months of legal resources and blocks a policy the American people voted for while courts sort it out.
That’s the strategy. And it worked – until now.
America First Legal Just Handed Jordan Proof the Weaponization of the Courts Is Real
AFL isn’t just making accusations. They’re asking Jordan to use Congress’s authority over the federal court rules to investigate the pattern and pass legislation that stops it cold.
A spokesperson for Jordan’s committee called AFL’s work “tremendous” and said “everything is on the table.”
Congress has real tools here.
Jordan spent years documenting the Left’s use of the court system to target conservatives – from Alvin Bragg to Fani Willis to the blue state AG lawfare operation targeting Trump’s second-term agenda.
This is different. AFL has the receipts — public records responses from the states themselves, in their own words, admitting they cannot back up the harms they swore to in federal court.
Congress Can End the Injunction Assembly Line and Now It Has the Evidence to Do It
The immediate stakes are 200-plus active cases tying up Trump’s agenda in court.
The bigger picture is what this exposes about Gavin Newsom’s California, Tim Walz’s Minnesota, and Kathy Hochul’s New York.
These aren’t state governments protecting their citizens. They’re running coordinated legal warfare using invented claims of injury that collapse the moment anyone asks for documentation.
AFL was direct about it: “Such conduct not only undermines the integrity of the federal court system but also abuses the judicial process to obstruct the lawful policies of the Trump Administration – policies that the American people voted for.”
Congress built the federal court rules. Congress can fix the standing problem letting these bad-faith lawsuits survive. They now have documented proof from the states themselves to do it.
Whether Jordan moves fast enough to matter is the only question left.
Sources:
- Elizabeth Elkind, “Trump-aligned law group urges Jim Jordan to probe ‘nationwide pattern’ of blue-state ‘lawfare’,” Fox News, March 16, 2026.
- America First Legal, “America First Legal Reveals Critical Flaws in More Blue State Lawfare Against President Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order,” AFL Press Release, December 9, 2025.
- America First Legal, “Challenging Standing from Blue States in Lawsuits against the Trump Administration,” AFL Investigations, September 25, 2025.
