Tong spoke as he announced his latest legal broadside against President Donald Trump's policies in New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood. Connecticut is joining a lawsuit against new rules that would require immigration-status verification at health clinics and other safety-net programs.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined other government officials nationwide in expanding a lawsuit that challenges the Trump Administration’s efforts to withhold funding from AmeriCorps. AmeriCorps is an independent federal agency that supports national and state community service programs by funding and placing volunteers in local and national organizations.

The attorneys general of Connecticut and New York joined 20 others in suing the Trump administration over federal cuts to social services.

In their lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Rhode Island, the attorneys general argue that the sudden policy move, announced July 10, has already created “chaos.” For program operators, it poses an “impossible choice between shutting their doors or risking an immediate cutoff in federal funding.”

California has sued the Trump administration over its efforts to block access to federally funded public benefit programs to undocumented immigrants.

H ARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — State Attorney General William Tong announced Tuesday that Connecticut has joined a multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration over $175 million in public ...

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell sued the Trump administration Monday over a new policy meant to bar undocumented immigrants from accessing “critical” public safety net programs.