ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, IT’S TRUMP FILING THE LAWSUITS. One of the main themes of resistance to the not-yet-1-month-old administration of President Donald Trump is the reliance on lawsuits (often filed with friendly judges) as the president’s adversaries try to kneecap his policy initiatives. So far, the court strategy has had a lot of at least temporary success because we have seen one injunction after another ordering the Trump administration to stop doing this or that.

Now Trump is fighting back with some lawsuits of his own on the critical issue of illegal immigration. In the past week, the Justice Department has filed suits against the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois and also against the state of New York and Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), as well as New York Attorney General Letitia James. You may remember James as a particularly zealous Trump-suer, having won a $454 million judgment against him in a property valuation case that many observers felt had little or no merit.