Trump’s Legal Showdown With Blue State AGs Is Already Happening

The coming legal clash between blue states and the Trump administration is already hitting courts across the US.

Democratic state attorneys general spent the final week of the Biden administration asking judges for permission to join ongoing fights over immigration, the environment and guns where they fear US agencies will change position once President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in.

Their push on the eve of Trump’s inauguration is a preview of what’s expected to be a bitter relationship between his administration and officials of so-called blue states, whose voters tend to favor Democrats. AGs from such states were a thorn ...