Here is the document that proves everything conservatives said about Democratic lawfare was true.
Seven months before Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, at least 22 Democrat state attorneys general joined a secret coalition called the Project for Federal Accountability. The first signatures went on the agreement on April 28, 2024 — when then-President Joe Biden was still in the race. By May and June, thirteen more AGs had signed. The agreement was stamped “Privileged & Confidential Common Interest Agreement” — legal language specifically designed to shield the coordination from public view and prevent opposing counsel from accessing it.
Translation: They built a secret legal war machine to stop a president who hadn’t been elected yet — and hid it from the taxpayers funding it.
The coalition divided up legal research by topic. They built a shared “brief bank” of pre-drafted lawsuits. They pored over the Project 2025 policy document hunting for attack vectors. Trump hadn’t signed a bill. He hadn’t issued an executive order. He hadn’t taken a single official action, because he wasn’t president yet. None of that mattered. The lawsuits were already written and waiting for him to take the oath.
Since Trump’s inauguration, Democrat AGs have sued his administration close to 100 times. California’s Rob Bonta has joined 82 of those lawsuits. Colorado’s Phil Weiser has joined 75. Washington’s Nick Brown — yes, the same Nick Brown who is now threatening journalists investigating COVID daycare fraud in his state — has joined 70.
Bonta insists this is “apolitical.” He added: “If Trump doesn’t want to get sued, all he has to do is follow the law.” This from a man who signed a secret coordination agreement seven months before Trump even won, based on a policy document from a foundation, targeting actions the incoming president hadn’t yet taken. That’s not law enforcement. That’s political resistance wearing a law degree.
Even people outside the conservative media world noticed. Retired Connecticut Judge Thomas Moukawsher mocked the coalition’s chosen name: “Federal Accountability? That’s just a little strange.” Former Utah AG Mark Shurtleff — a Republican who now often votes for Democrats — called the secrecy “not normal at all.”
The cost is staggering and the people paying it have no say. California alone has burned through $19 million, with another $25 million authorized. New Jersey tucked $1 million into its state budget for two new staff positions dedicated exclusively to the coalition’s legal work. Taxpayers across blue states are literally funding a pre-planned legal ambush that began before Trump won.
The standard Democratic talking point has always been that their lawsuits are about the rule of law. The April 2024 document proves that was never true. This was always about resistance — planned in secret, coordinated across state lines, funded by taxpayers who never consented to it, and launched against a president whose only offense at the time was being the likely Republican nominee.
That’s not the rule of law. That’s a political operation that bought itself a bar association membership.
