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Michigan Attorney General's Federal Action Lawsuits
Case Filed |
Case Name |
Summary |
AG Press Release |
1/21/2025 |
Michigan and a coalition of 18 states filed this lawsuit to challenge President Trump’s executive order excluding certain newborns from birthright citizenship. This lawsuit is based on a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. If this executive order is allowed to stand, an estimated 150,000 newborns per year—all born in America—would no longer count as Americans. Withholding citizenship from them would reduce the amount of money that the state of Michigan receives from the federal government to fund healthcare, education, and child welfare. Michigan’s hospitals and schools would receive less money too. |
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1/28/2025 |
Michigan and a coalition of 21 states filed this lawsuit to challenge a Trump administration policy that pauses disbursements of almost all federal funding to the states (the “OMB Directive”). This lawsuit is based on multiple violations of the U.S. Constitution and federal laws. If this policy is allowed to stand, Michigan and other states would not receive billions of dollars in funds promised by Congress to pay for Medicaid, healthcare, childcare, law enforcement, roads, support for public schools, resources to combat hate crimes and violence against women, disaster relief, and more. |
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2/10/2025 |
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. National Institutes of Health (NIH) (PDF) |
Michigan co-led a coalition of 21 states in this lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration’s policy to cut billions of dollars in medical research funding provided by the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”). This lawsuit is based on violations of federal law. If the Trump administration’s policy is allowed to stand, then the University of Michigan stands to lose about $181 million, Michigan State University stands to lose about $27 million, and Wayne State University stands to lose millions more in research funding that they use to cure and treat diseases like cancer. At University of Michigan alone, this would impact 425 NIH-funded trials currently underway, including 161 trials aimed at saving lives.
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2/13/2025 |
Michigan co-led a coalition of 13 states in this lawsuit to challenge Elon Musk’s authority to exercise vast power over the entire federal government. This lawsuit is based on violations of the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which requires that federal officers must be appointed to offices created by Congress and confirmed by the Senate. If Musk’s authority is allowed to stand, then Musk will continue to stop federal funds for law enforcement, health care, education from going to states, including Michigan; illegally eliminate agencies created by Congress, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; and access sensitive personal information about Michiganders and using it for illegal purposes. This suit highlights how, with President Trump's approval, Musk has unraveled federal agencies, accessed sensitive data, and caused widespread disruption for state and local governments, federal employees, and the American people. The complaint further asserts that Musk’s actions violate the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which ensures that executive appointments are subject to congressional oversight and Senate confirmation. |
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3/6/2025 |
Maryland et al. v. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture et al. (USDA) (PDF) |
Michigan and a coalition of 19 states filed this lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration’s firing of thousands of government employees en masse in violation of laws passed by Congress. This lawsuit is based on violations of multiple federal laws and laws that require the federal government to reimburse states for some of the costs of running unemployment programs. If these mass firings are allowed to stand, then Michigan will pay the costs of unemployed workers, including sudden demand for unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and other services funded by the state taxpayers. |
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3/13/2025 |
Michigan and a coalition of 19 states filed this lawsuit to challenge President Trump’s attempt to dismantle and eliminate the Department of Education. This lawsuit is based on violations of the U.S. Constitution, the separation of powers, and federal law. If the President’s policies are allowed to stand, then Michigan will be harmed in multiple ways. First, billions of dollars in funds could not be given to states, including funds for disabled students. Second, federal student loans and FAFSA applications would be disrupted or taken offline, leaving millions of potential students and current borrowers in limbo and unable to access repayment plans. Last, various services for students with special education needs, including those who are homeless, would disappear.
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4/1/2025 |
Michigan and a coalition of 23 states filed this lawsuit to challenge the Department of Health and Human Service's abrupt and illegal termination of over $11B in critical public health grants nationwide. If these cuts were allowed to stand, Michigan would lose over $379M in grant funding already awarded to and owed to the State. These grants helped support programs to treat mental health and substance abuse, grants from the CDC to support infectious disease control, vaccinations programs for children and vulnerable adults, and more. |
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4/3/2025 |
Michigan and a coalition of 19 states filed this lawsuit to challenge President Trump's Executive Order No. 14248 (the "Elections Executive Order") which is an undemocratic and illegal attempt to impose sweeping voting restrictions nationwide. The Elections Executive Order attempts to conscript State election officials in the President’s efforts to impose overly burdensome proof-of-citizenship requirements when Americans register to vote. It also seeks to upend common-sense, well-established state procedures for counting ballots — procedures that ensure peoples’ voices are heard. |
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4/4/2025 |
Michigan and a coalition of 19 states filed this lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration's dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Minority Business Development Agency and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. If allowed to stand, Michigan could lose over $4.75M in federal library funding, small businesses would lose access to new grants and unionized workers would have a harder time securing their rights. |
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4/10/2025 |
New York et al. v. U.S. Dept. of Education (DOE), McMahon, et al. (PDF) |
Michigan and a coalition of 15 states filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon for unlawfully rescinding an extended deadline that allowed states and local school districts to use pandemic relief education funds appropriate by Congress. The suit argues that when the DOE terminated those extensions, they caused immediate and irreparable harm to the Michigan Department of Education, local districts, and the State’s public-school students by severing the State’s access to more than $25 million in education stabilization funds. |
Table updated April 15, 2025