If someone had told then-Oregon House Speaker Dan Rayfield two years ago that any attorney general had filed 37 lawsuits against the federal government, he would have assumed that attorney general was “bonkers.”
But Rayfield, now eight months into his term as attorney general, has filed 37 lawsuits against the Trump administration, and nearly all of those cases have resulted in some level of relief for the state and its partners — judges granting injunctions and issuing other rulings that at least temporarily paused efforts to block federal funding, strip automatic citizenship from people born in the U.S. and fire federal workers.
“Oregon has been taking the lead in these cases, and this is something we’re incredibly proud of,” Rayfield said during a Friday speech to the Salem City Club…