LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has added another case to her long list of challenges against the Trump administration, joining her 33rd lawsuit targeting its policies.

On Wednesday, October 1, Nessel joined New York, California, and a laundry list of other blue states with Democratic attorneys general in suing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) after the DOJ decided that federal dollars shouldn’t bankroll legal services for people who aren’t supposed to be in the country.

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The DOJ’s new “Legal Services Condition” restricts states from using certain federal victim-assistance and justice grants to cover legal help for illegal immigrants. Exceptions are carved out for things like restraining orders, trafficking cases, and certain immigration visas – but apparently that’s not good enough for Nessel and her other blue state attorneys general.

Retroactive outrage.

The feds told states this summer that the new rules apply not only to future grants, but also to existing ones as well and is set to take effect on October 31. The plaintiff states argue the DOJ rule is retroactive, ambiguous, “arbitrary and capricious,” leaving them confused about what services are off-limits.

Victims or voters?

The lawsuit insists the DOJ’s restrictions will hurt crime victims and overwhelm nonprofits. But critics point out that funds were supposed to help victims of crime – not subsidize immigration lawyers for people who broke U.S. law in the first place.