Trump Got Sued by Everyone

From California to the SEIU, a coalition of plaintiffs has filed the legal equivalent of a bunker buster against DOGE.

For years, Donald Trump and his loyalists have treated the federal government like a hostile foreign power, something to be gutted, humiliated, and privatized. In his second term, that war has escalated into a full-blown purge, orchestrated through the cartoonishly named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a shadow agency with real teeth and no accountability. But now, the federal workforce is fighting back with lawyers.

This week, a coalition of labor unions, nonprofits, and local governments, represented by Democracy Forward and former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen, filed a 115-page constitutional cannonball aimed straight at the heart of Trump’s dismantling machine. The lawsuit is massive in both scale and scope. Its five-page caption lists so many plaintiffs, it reads less like a legal document and more like the end credits of a disaster movie: “Starring California, Maryland, Texas, Washington, a public school district in Oregon, the SEIU, and everyone else who still believes in separation of powers.”