Attorney General Nick Brown, as part of a coalition of 12 attorneys general, filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from unlawfully reallocating federal homeland security funding away from states based on their compliance with the administration’s political agenda.

Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in issuing a joint statement addressing concerns over a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of mifepristone.

The Trump administration is threatening to pull funding for longstanding teen reproductive and sexual health education programs from states unless they remove language affirming young people’s gender identity.
 
In response, Washington Attorney General Nick Brown is co-leading a coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia suing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over this cruel, arbitrary, and illegal effort to deny support to young people for purely political reasons. The states of Oregon and Minnesota are co-leading.
 

The Trump administration illegally attempted to coerce states into sweeping immigration enforcement by threatening to withhold billions in federal emergency services funding, a federal judge has ruled in an important victory for Washington and a multistate coalition.

A U.S. District Court judge in Rhode Island has granted a motion for summary judgment filed by Attorney General Nick Brown and 20 other attorneys general in their lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).