Boston Globe: New England has become a hotbed of anti-Trump litigation.It’s not a coincidence.

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“‘The states are being highly strategic on where they sue,’ Tierney said.

”But … there’s another important factor besides winning the case up to the appellate level and hoping the conservative Supreme Court doesn’t overturn it: Gaining public attention.…

”‘The real power of the litigation was the storytelling,’ Tierney said. First Circuit judges ‘are not going to do a favor for anybody, not for the president or for the plaintiffs. ... If you get a judge like [Judge John] McConnell in Rhode Island, they’re going to say, “I want to hear the story, I want the Department of Justice in my courtroom.”’
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