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BY JOSH DELK - 12/26/17 08:37 AM EST
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has taken legal action against the Trump administration or congressional Republicans 100 times during President Trump's first year in office, according to The New York Times, continuing a long-running rivalry between the two.
Schneiderman has sued the administration to block all three of President Trump's bans on travel, to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and sued the Federal Communications Commission for its decision to end net neutrality, an Obama-era internet regulation. We try and protect New Yorkers from those who would do them harm, Schneiderman told The Times. The biggest threat to New Yorkers right now is the federal government, so were responding to it.
Schneiderman, who is in his seventh year as New York's top attorney, riled tensions with Trump when a judge approved his $25 million settlement in November for a fraud case against the now-defunct Trump University.
Trump, who led a real estate career in Manhattan before running for president, repeatedly clashed with the attorney general over the years. Shneiderman has also opened legal inquiries into Trump's charity and his son Eric's foundation.
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dalton99a
(81,552 posts)In Mr. Schneidermans seventh year as attorney general, the office has been transformed into a bulwark of resistance amid an unusually expansive level of confrontation with the federal government. Other Democratic state attorneys general are undertaking similar efforts, often in concert, like Xavier Becerra in California, where extra money was set aside in the budget for the attorney general to battle the Trump administration.
How far Mr. Schneiderman is willing to go in taking on Mr. Trump could define his political career, particularly in a blue state where disapproval of the president is high. The attorney generals office potential for troublemaking and generating national headlines was redefined in the early 2000s by Eliot Spitzer. Mr. Schneiderman is a less combative man who was often the target of Mr. Trumps Twitter wrath amid a three-year civil investigation into Trump University. In the end, Mr. Schneidermans office extracted a $25 million settlement in the case.
Nonetheless, Mr. Schneiderman is seen by some as a possible backstop should the president exercise his pardon power to help those who might become ensnared in the investigation of possible Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election being led by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel. Federal pardons do not apply to violations of state law.
FM123
(10,054 posts)I was just casually watching Nick Akerman (former Watergate prosecutor) being interviewed on MSNBC news and my ears perked up when he just said that if Trumpy went ahead and got rid of Mueller, Rosenstein etc and shut down the investigation that Schneiderman could swoop in and re-hire them on his team to look into everything on the state level and get them that way.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)He's a rising star.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Schneiderman, Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu in California as well.