(The Center Square) – The attorney general for Illinois says he will continue to fight court battles against the Trump administration.
Kwame Raoul appeared at the City Club of Chicago Tuesday to address his ongoing efforts to resist executive orders coming from President Donald Trump.
During a question-and-answer session, Raoul said Trump is breaking the law with many of his executive orders.
“One of the things that has to happen in the system of government is that it has to be lawful and be consistent with our constitution and it’s got to be consistent with the laws that Congress has laid out, and he’s chosen to, with many of these executive orders, ignore both,” said Raoul.
Raoul has joined several lawsuits with other states in an effort to overturn some of Trump’s orders, including the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education and to block an executive order barring the recognition of birthright citizenship for people born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents.
Raoul is asking for additional funding for his office as it takes on the host of lawsuits and legal filings against Trump.
Trump signed another executive order this week aimed at ending ticket price gouging for live entertainment. Recording artist Kid Rock, who has lobbied for such legislation for years, was on hand at the White House for the signing.
“I’d like to take my ticket prices lower, but if I set my ticket prices low, these bots immediately eat them up and they resell for hundreds of dollars more and I’m just making these bad actors rich,” he said.
Raoul, along with 20 other Democratic attorney generals, have penned an open letter calling for unity in the legal profession against what they claim is the Trump administration’s retaliation against attorneys and law firms that have brought cases against the administration.
