WA AGO billed more than 34,000 hours on Trump lawsuits

(The Center Square) – The Washington State Attorney General’s Office staff has billed more than 34,000 hours working on lawsuits filed against the Trump Administration since November 2024, according to records obtained by The Center Square. More than two thirds of those hours billed within a six-month period.

The 34,000 hours represents a combined 1,416 days or 3.9 years of billable work.

“That’s a significant amount of time even for an agency with 800 lawyers,” Citizen Action Defense Fund Executive Director Jackson Maynard told The Center Square. “For comparison a lot of private law firms have billable requirements for lawyers in the range of 2000-2400 per year. That’s equivalent to 100 lawyers working full time on those cases.”

However, according to AGO Deputy Communications Director Mike Faulk, there are 30 attorneys handling the litigation.

There have been a total of 758 lawsuits filed against the Trump administration during his second term, according to Just Security’s legal Read Entire Article