Under Maura Healey, the attorney general’s office sued the Trump administration nearly 100 times. Most of the time, she prevailed.
/“Former Maine attorney general James Tierney, now a Harvard Law lecturer, said the strategy of suing the federal government can have a big payoff for the states. It’s much easier, after all, to sue to prevent policy changes than to pass new laws through Congress.
’You get a big bang for your buck,’ said Tierney, a Democrat. ‘You can stop something bad happening or bring money into your state. You can get huge payback.’”
Shelley Murphy and Andrea Estes, “Under Maura Healey, the attorney general’s office sued the Trump administration nearly 100 times. Most of the time, she prevailed.,” Boston Globe, August 14, 2022.