A George Soros-backed state attorney general has admitted that a coalition of anti-Trump prosecutors coordinated "daily" in 2025 to devise legal strategies to obstruct President Donald Trumps second-term agenda.
In an interview with Source New Mexico published on December 31, New Mexico Attorney General Ral Torrez, a Democrat, revealed that he and other like-minded attorneys general "were meeting on a daily basis for the first 90 or so days" of Trumps return to the White House. As reported by Fox News, Torrez further acknowledged that, after the initial blitz of coordination, "We have since taken that down to every other day," underscoring the sustained, organized nature of the effort to counter the administration.
According to Source New Mexico, Torrez has either led or joined 36 legal actions against the Trump administration since January 2025, an extraordinary volume that reflects a deliberate strategy of lawfare rather than routine oversight. These cases include a challenge to the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., litigation against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and opposition to several of the administrations immigration measures.
Torrez himself characterized the campaign as a massive, ongoing operation, calling it an "ever-growing resource challenge to track and monitor the pending status of all that litigation." For critics of this approach, such language confirms that Democratic attorneys general are devoting extensive taxpayer-funded resources to thwart a duly elected presidents policies rather than focusing on crime, public safety, and core state responsibilities.
Torrez has served as New Mexicos attorney general since 2023, but his political ascent began in 2016 when he successfully ran for Bernalillo County district attorney with the backing of a Soros-funded political machine. During that race, he received support from New Mexico Safety & Justice, a left-leaning super PAC heavily bankrolled by billionaire financier George Soros, whose spending has reshaped prosecutors offices across the country in a more progressive, soft-on-crime direction.
According to a June 2016 expenditures and contributions report on the New Mexico Secretary of States website, New Mexico Safety & Justice received a $107,000 donation from Soros. The same filing shows the group spent $92,526.84 on media buys and production in support of Torrez, along with $9,555.00 on "In-Kind Polling to Progressive Champions NM PAC" and $1,951.40 on "polling," illustrating how outside money helped engineer his rise.
Torrezs Republican opponent in that 2016 race, Simon Kubiak, dropped out after the Soros infusion, citing the overwhelming financial imbalance. The New Mexico Political Report quoted Kubiak as saying that "New Mexicans cannot afford to challenge anyone who has unlimited resources and support from a multibillionaire from another country," a pointed reference to Soros, who was born in Hungary and now resides in New York.
After serving two terms as Bernalillo County district attorney, Torrez won election as New Mexico attorney general in 2022 and assumed office in 2023. From that statewide perch, he has become a key player in the broader Democratic legal resistance to Trump, leveraging the power of his office to join multistate lawsuits that seek to block conservative policies in court rather than through the ballot box.
Torrez launched his first lawsuit against the administration just one day after Trump returned to the Oval Office, signaling a premeditated posture of confrontation rather than cooperation. On January 21, he joined 17 other state attorneys general and the attorney general of D.C. in challenging Trumps executive order restricting birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, a policy widely supported by conservatives who argue that citizenship should not be exploited as a loophole for unlawful entry.
In a statement at the time, Torrez denounced the order as "a direct attack on the Constitution and the fundamental rights it guarantees to every child born on American soil." The order is currently blocked while litigation proceeds, a reminder of how progressive attorneys general can effectively nullify federal policy through friendly courts even when those policies reflect longstanding conservative priorities on sovereignty and immigration.
The following month, Torrez led a lawsuit targeting the Trump administrations use of DOGE, arguing that Elon Musk and the department were unlawfully granted authority to implement planned budget reductions. In April, he joined 19 other attorneys general in suing over Trumps executive order requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, a basic election-integrity measure that many on the right view as common sense but that progressive officials routinely portray as discriminatory.
By September, Torrez had escalated his involvement in national security disputes, filing an amicus brief supporting a separate lawsuit against the administrations deployment of troops to Washington, D.C. According to his interview, Torrez and his fellow coalition members began preparing for a possible second Trump term as early as "early 2024," and he boasted that "We have kept our foot on the gas," language that conservatives see as evidence of a preplanned resistance campaign rather than neutral law enforcement.
Even as he touts his aggressive posture, Torrez has expressed frustration that some of the administrations priorities are moving from executive action into statute. He lamented that "the sad part" is that "some of these actions that were pursued by the administration through executive orders are now being built into the Big, Beautiful Bill, so even if we win on the restoration of funding from the first fiscal year, well be overtaken by federal legislation."
Torrez also claimed that "none of the institutions in our government have been built to respond and react to the scale and speed of the destruction thats being wrought by the Trump administration." That rhetoric, casting conservative governance as "destruction," underscores the ideological divide between progressive prosecutors funded by left-wing billionaires and voters who twice elected Trump on promises of border security, deregulation, and restoring constitutional limits on federal power.
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