New Player, Same Script

Once again, an Attorney General is using his office to benefit his party instead of Marylanders

A story in Maryland Matters caught my eye this morning and it brought back some unfortunate memories for me:

President Donald Trump is unleashing almost daily executive orders to reshape the federal government — and opponents, including the state of Maryland, are just as quickly filing legal challenges to block policies that put “Marylanders and Americans at risk.”

That’s how Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) described his decision to join in several of the lawsuits that other states’ attorneys general have filed to counter the blizzard of initiatives since Trump was sworn in on Jan. 20.

“Every day in the last three weeks … It’s waking up to a natural disaster or some other crisis – this sense of urgency, the need to act,” Brown said Monday at the Office of the Attorney General in Baltimore. “Here we have a federal government that seems to be at war with the people of America, and it seems to be at war with communities across America.”

If this script sounds familiar, it should. It’s the same script that former Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh used during his four years in office.

While both Attorneys General differ in priorities, the one thing that remains strikingly the same is that they are using Maryland taxpayer dollars to fund political battles against the Trump Administration.