Lawsuit Highlights
No one, even the President of the United States, is above the law. To date, Attorney General Campbell has filed 47 lawsuits against the Trump Administration for its unlawful and reckless actions. These actions put Massachusetts residents’ health care, education, and jobs at risk.
Civil Rights
Birthright Citizenship
- On January 21, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 18 other states to challenge the Trump Administration’s unlawful Executive Order attempting to end birthright citizenship – a direct violation of the 14th Amendment.
Gender Affirming Care
- On December 23, 2025, AG Campbell joined a coalition of 19 other states challenging the Trump Administration to ensure that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cannot baselessly threaten providers in order to limit access to gender-affirming care for young people.
Voting Rights
- On April 3, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 19 other states suing the Trump Administration, including U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the federal Election Assistance Commission and other officials, over the Administration’s unconstitutional and antidemocratic attempt to disenfranchise voters by imposing sweeping election restrictions across the country.
Affordability
Consumer Protection
- On December 22, 2025, AG Campbell joined a coalition of 21 states suing to stop the Trump Administration from defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has returned more than $21 billion improperly taken from over 205 million Americans throughout its 14-year existence and assisted states in protecting consumers.
Student Loans
- On November 11, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 21 other states in suing the U.S. Department of Education for unlawfully restricting eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which allows government and nonprofit employees to have their federal student loans forgiven after ten years of service, based on borrowers’ participation in actions disfavored by the Trump Administration.
Utility Costs
- On October 16, 2025, AG Campbell joined 22 other states in suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for illegally ending a $7 billion program, known as Solar for All, that lowers energy costs and pollution by bringing solar energy to more than 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities across the country.
- On May 5, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 18 states in suing the Trump Administration over its unlawful attempt to freeze permitting for the development of wind energy and limit the sources of energy available to the electric grid, costing Massachusetts ratepayers money. On December 8, 2025, the district court ruled in the coalition’s favor, declaring the Trump Administration’s freeze on offshore wind permitting to be unlawful.
Health Care and Human Services
Food Access
- On October 28, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 22 other attorneys general and three governors in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Secretary Brooke Rollins for unlawfully withholding federal funding for SNAP, which helps more than 40 million Americans buy food, due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. The Trump Administration was ordered to use contingency funds to keep SNAP benefits available during the shutdown.
Health Care
- On July 17, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 20 other states in filing a lawsuit challenging an unlawful final rule instituted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that would create significant barriers to obtaining health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The final rule would make numerous amendments to rules governing federal and state health insurance marketplaces. As a result, up to 1.8 million people would lose their health insurance while causing millions more to pay increased insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs like copays and deductibles.
Reproductive Justice
- On July 29, 2025, AG Campbell joined a coalition of 23 states in suing the Trump Administration over a statutory provision that would prevent Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its member health centers from receiving federal Medicaid funding in retaliation for their political advocacy in support of reproductive choice.
Education
Education Funding
- On July 14, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 23 attorneys general and the governors of Pennsylvania and Kentucky in suing the Trump Administration over its unconstitutional and unlawful decision to freeze $6.8 billion in funding by the U.S. Department of Education just weeks before the school year is set to begin. In Massachusetts, the freeze would have impacted more than $107 million in funding for critical K-12 and adult education programs.
As a result of this lawsuit, the Trump Administration agreed to back off the freeze and fully release the education funding, as required by law.
- On July 14, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 23 attorneys general and the governors of Pennsylvania and Kentucky in suing the Trump Administration over its unconstitutional and unlawful decision to freeze $6.8 billion in funding by the U.S. Department of Education just weeks before the school year is set to begin. In Massachusetts, the freeze would have impacted more than $107 million in funding for critical K-12 and adult education programs.
Department of Education
- On March 13, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 21 states in suing U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, the U.S. Department of Education, and President Trump over their unlawful attempt to dismantle the Department of Education.
Student Mental Health
- On July 1, 2025, AG Campbell joined a coalition of 16 other states in suing the U.S. Department of Education for unlawfully withholding congressionally approved funding for mental health programs in K-12 schools. On December 22, 2025, a federal judge ruled in the coalition’s favor, reinstating the grant funding.
Teacher Shortage
- On March 6, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of attorneys general in a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s unlawful termination of grant funding for nationwide K-12 teacher development programs. The termination includes more than $6 million in funding cuts to Massachusetts-based programs designed to address the ongoing shortage of licensed teachers in school districts in Springfield, Holyoke, and Boston.
Housing
Housing our neighbors
- On November 25, 2025, AG Campbell joined a coalition of 20 other states in suing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for placing unlawful restrictions on Continuum of Care grant programs. These restrictions would dramatically reduce the amount of grant funds that can be spent on permanent housing and project renewals that help ensure housing continuity, place unlawful conditions on access to the funding (including mandating that housing providers only recognize two genders and denying housing to people unless they can commit to participating in program services), and punish providers that do not enforce strict anti-homeless laws.
Energy and the Environment
Wind Energy
- On May 5, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 18 states in suing the Trump Administration over its unlawful attempt to freeze permitting for the development of wind energy, putting at risk well-paying green jobs and reliable, affordable energy that helps meet Massachusetts’s clean energy and climate goals. On December 8, 2025, the district court ruled in the coalition’s favor, declaring the Trump Administration’s freeze on offshore wind permitting to be unlawful.
Electric Vehicles
- On December 16, 2025, AG Campbell joined a coalition of 17 states in suing the Trump Administration for unlawfully suspending two bipartisan grant programs totaling nearly $2 billion dollars for electric vehicle charging infrastructure that would reduce pollution, expand access to clean vehicles, and create thousands of green jobs.
Disaster Preparedness
On July 16, 2025, AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 20 states in suing the Trump Administration over its unlawful attempt to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) bipartisan Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, designed to protect communities from natural disasters before they strike. On December 11, 2025, the courts ruled in the coalition’s favor, preventing the Trump Administration from abandoning states and local communities.
Economic Development
Research
- On February 10, 2025, AG Campbell co-led 21 other states in suing the Trump Administration for unlawfully cutting funding from the National Institutes of Health that supports cutting-edge medical and public health research at universities and research institutions across the country, putting Massachusetts’s economy at risk.
- And on April 4, 2025, AG Campbell led a coalition of 16 states in suing the Trump Administration over its unlawful attempt to disrupt grant funding issued by the National Institutes of Health. The lawsuit challenges the Administration’s unreasonable and intentional delays in reviewing NIH grant applications, as well as its termination of hundreds of already-issued grants, putting Massachusetts’s research-driven workforce in harm’s way.
Privacy and Public Safety
DOGE
- On February 7, 2025, AG Campbell joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general to prevent DOGE and Elon Musk from accessing private financial information and challenge the legitimacy of their power.
Victim Services
- On August 18, 2025, AG Campbell joined a coalition of 21 states in suing the Trump Administration over attempting to restrict funding for Victims of Crimes Grants, intended to support victim and survivors of crimes, unless states agree to support the administration’s cruel immigration enforcement efforts.
Gun Violence Prevention
- On June 9, 2025, AG Campbell joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general in suing the Trump Administration, and in particular the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, over its plans to distribute thousands of machinegun conversion devices to communities across the United States. This lawsuit successfully resulted in the administration suspending the program.
Transportation
Transportation Grants
- On May 13, 2025, AG Campbell joined 21 attorneys general in challenging the Trump Administration’s efforts to strong arm states into participating in cruel and unlawful immigration enforcement tactics by withholding billions of dollars, including an anticipated $1.6 billion for Massachusetts, in annual U.S. Department of Transportation grants to support and maintain roads, highways, railways, airways, and bridges.
Additional Legal Action
In addition to filing lawsuits, Attorney General Campbell has led and joined additional legal actions, supporting other challenges to the unlawful actions of the Trump Administration.
Civil Rights
Immigration
- When faced with threats by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Venezuelan immigrant communities, AG Campbell has filed multiple briefs with the courts supporting challenges to these directives and extending TPS.
- AG Campbell co-led a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief supporting a challenge to the Trump Administration’s “Ideological Deportation Policy,” which targets and punishes noncitizens with lawful status, especially college students such as Rumeysa Ӧztürk and faculty who express political beliefs with which the Administration disagrees. AG Campbell filed a brief with the court to support a challenge to the Trump Administration for attempting to roll back legal representation for unaccompanied immigrant children, putting vulnerable young people's rights at risk and limiting their access to systems designed to protect them.
LGBTQIA+ Rights
- AG Campbell joined 19 states in filing a brief, to support a lawsuit aiming to block the implementation of President Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military. The brief argues that the executive order is unconstitutional, harms national security, and discriminates against transgender people honorably serving in our nation’s military, including the National Guard in every state.
- AG Campbell co-led a brief supporting Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays’ (PFLAG) lawsuit against the Trump Administration’s attempt to restrict access to gender affirming care for trans youth.
- AG Campbell led a multistate coalition in filing a brief with the courts fighting back against the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice for attempting to force Boston Children’s Hospital to turn over sensitive, confidential patient records related to gender-affirming care.
- AG Campbell co-led a multistate coalition urging the courts to block a Trump Administration policy that would remove all discretion of correctional staff to house transgender women in women’s prisons.
Free Speech
AG Campbell joined a multistate coalition in filing two amicus briefs supporting law firms unlawfully targeted by the Trump Administration for doing working disfavored by the President.
Good Government
Protecting Federal Workers
- AG Campbell joined a coalition of 20 other states in filing an amicus brief in support of federal employees challenging the Trump Administration’s federal buyout plan, arguing that the plan is an attempt to force federal workers to choose between a legally fraught “buy-out” and potential termination.
Preserving Independence in the Federal Government
- AG Campbell joined a coalition of 20 states in filing an amicus brief supporting Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump for her unlawful dismissal, undermining the enforcement of labor laws nationally.
AG Campbell joined a multistate coalition in filing an amicus supporting the reinstatement of two Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioners, both of whom were unlawfully fired from their roles by the Trump Administration.
Public Media
- AG Campbell filed a brief with the courts supporting a challenge to the Trump Administration’s attempt to defund PBS and NPR.
Protecting your wallet & Massachusetts’s economy
Consumer Protection
- As the Trump Administration has set its sights on dismantling the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), AG Campbell has filed multiple briefs with the court in support of challenges to unlawful directives targeting the CFPB. In December 2025, AG Campbell joined a multistate lawsuit defending the CFPB from the Trump Administration.
Social Security
- AG Campbell filed a brief with the courts supporting a lawsuit protecting Social Security from DOGE and the Trump Administration.
Higher Education
- AG Campbell filed a brief with the courts supporting Harvard University’s challenge to the Trump Administration for a retaliatory funding freeze, threatening Massachusetts’s economy and fifth largest employer.
AG Campbell also filed a brief with the courts in support of Harvard’s challenge against the Trump Administration’s targeting of international students and scholars.
Public Safety
National Guard
- AG Campbell joined a broad coalition of states in filing amicus briefs supporting challenges to the Trump Administration’s unlawful deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C.
City of Boston Trust Act
- AG Campbell filed a brief with the courts supporting the City of Boston in defending the Trust Act, a local law that limits law enforcement's participation in federal immigration policy, builds trust and promotes public safety, against attacks by the Trump Administration.
Energy & the Environment
Climate Change
- AG Campbell filed a brief with the courts supporting the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program, created to address the disproportionate impact of climate change across our communities, from unlawful attempts by the Trump Administration to gut it.