A confidential document obtained by The Center Square reveals that at least 22 Democratic state attorneys general formed a coordinated legal network called the "Project for Federal Accountability" — a structured campaign to bury the Trump administration under lawsuits. The project wasn't a loose coalition. It had a name, a strategy, and apparently a very active email chain.

They just didn't want anyone to know about it.

Since January 2025, those attorneys general and their offices have filed more than 100 multistate lawsuits against the Trump administration. A hundred. Every time one of these AGs held a press conference announcing their "independent" legal action against some Trump policy, there was a coordinated apparatus working behind the scenes to synchronize the attack. The "Project for Federal Accountability" wasn't about accountability at all — it was about volume. Flood the courts and tie up the administration so they can't complete their agenda.

The coalition spans 24 states plus Washington, D.C. — Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

When journalists started filing public records requests to see the communications behind the project, the responses were revealing. California Deputy Attorney General Liberty Sacker rejected a request by claiming it "could encompass emails pertaining to 82 lawsuits" and that those records were "exempt from disclosure pursuant to the attorney-client privilege." Eighty-two lawsuits. From one state.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office added that releasing the records "would not be in the public interest." A coordinated multi-state legal campaign against a sitting president, and the public doesn't get to see how it was organized. That's an interesting definition of "public interest" from a public servant.

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford took a different tack, claiming the communications were "protected by common interest privilege." Common interest privilege — the legal doctrine that lets co-parties in litigation share strategy without disclosure. Which is a perfectly valid legal shield. It's also an admission that these offices were operating as co-parties in a shared legal strategy against the president. Ford said the quiet part out loud.

Oregon's attorney general's office located over 1,000 emails related to the project but refused to release them. One thousand emails. For a network that supposedly consisted of independent legal decisions by independent state officers.

Retired Connecticut Judge Thomas Moukawsher offered some legal context to Liberty Nation. "Parties with the same interests need to be able to speak with their lawyers confidentially," he said. He also acknowledged that regardless of the politics, Trump is "entitled to the law as much as anyone else."

The pattern here isn't complicated. Twenty-two attorneys general created a named project, staffed it, generated thousands of emails coordinating strategy, filed over 100 lawsuits, and then invoked every privilege in the book to keep the public from seeing how it was organized. Every single records request was either denied, deflected, or buried under privilege claims.