13 States Challenge Trump Public Charge Rule

As reported previously, San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties who filed a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s public charge rule. Thirteen states also filed a lawsuit challenging the  rule.  Rebecca Klar in The Hil reports on that suit.  Washington state Attorney General Robert Ferguson, who co-leads the lawsuit, said in a statement, “It forces families into an impossible choice — to sacrifice their dream of becoming Americans in order to provide health care, food or a roof over their children’s heads, or let their families go without in order to remain in the country.”  Among other things, the Coimplaint states that  “The rule is arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion because—among other reasons—it reverses a decades-old, consistent policy without reasoned analysis,”

The states challemnging the rule are:

1.  Washington

2.  Virginia

3.  Colorado

4.  Delaware

5.  Illinois

6.  Maryland

7.  Massachusetts

8.  Michigan

9.  Minnesota

10.  Nevada

11.  New Jersey

12.  New Mexico

13.  Rhode Island

KJ