Laid-off federal workers are overwhelming states with unemployment requests, putting a strain on finances

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39. Most of these suits have been done by the state AGs vs the governors

So IIRC, there are at least 22 (21 states + D.C.) that have a (D) AG that have actively filed suits and that is why you'll generally see a "22" number joining in suits. Not sure about this "19" situation as they might have not had time or had enough authority from their states to do it. And the case of D.C. is that they are weird and pretty much controlled by Congress.

I just found this about NC - NC Senate votes to ban lawsuits against Trump, DEI in schools

So despite managing to break their full legislative "super majority", the craven machinations in the NC legislature has been attempting to thwart their state's participation in any of these suits.

Our (PA) governor *used to be* the state AG so he gave it a shot suing the way he did. I don't know how many other (D) governors are willing or legally (state-wise) able to do that.