2025 Press Releases

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• 10/9/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Sham Indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement on the sham indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James.

• 10/9/2025 Attorney General Tong Joins Coalition United Against Trump's National Guard Deployment to Oregon

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general and governors in an amicus brief supporting Oregon’s court challenge to the Trump administration’s latest attempts to illegally use the military for civil law enforcement.

• 10/3/2025 Attorneys General Tong Files Second Lawsuit Against DOJ to Protect Services for Crime Survivors

  Attorney General William Tong this week joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing a second lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block new restrictions on federal funding that supports survivors of domestic violence and other violent crimes.

• 10/3/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on First Circuit Decision Upholding Nationwide Injunction in Birthright Citizenship Case

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a nationwide injunction preventing President Trump’s unconstitutional birthright citizenship executive order.

• 10/1/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Zillow and Redfin for Anticompetitive Agreement That Could Make Rent Prices Even Higher

  Attorney General William Tong today joined the attorneys general of Arizona, New York, Virginia and Washington in close collaboration with the Federal Trade Commission in suing Zillow and Redfin over a $100 million anticompetitive agreement between the two rental housing listing sites that hands Zillow unfair dominance in the market and the potential to push rental prices even higher for Connecticut families.

• 10/1/2025 Governing Magazine Names Attorney General Tong Among 2025 Public Officials of the Year

  Governing Magazine has named Attorney General William Tong among its 2025 Public Officials of the Year.

• 10/1/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Dismissal of Challenge to State Park Handgun Restrictions

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the dismissal of a federal challenge, Nastri v. Dykes, to the state’s commonsense restrictions on handguns in state parks and forests.

• 9/30/2025 Attorney General Tong Files Emergency Lawsuit to Protect Critical Homeland Security Funding from Politically Motivated Cuts

  Attorney General William Tong, as part of a coalition of 12 attorneys general, filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from unlawfully reallocating and constraining federal homeland security funding from states based on their compliance with the administration’s political agenda.

• 9/30/2025 Attorney General Tong Secures Court Order Declaring Federal Energy Program Cuts Illegal

  Attorney General William Tong today secured a major victory to protect Connecticut energy programs, after the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon found that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) cap on state energy program funding is illegal.

• 9/26/2025 Connecticut Joins FTC to Stop Deceptive Cancer Charity Fundraising Scheme

  Attorney General William Tong today joined the Federal Trade Commission and 22 agencies from 19 states announcing a settlement to stop a deceptive charity fundraising scheme and its operators who made false or deceptive claims to U.S. donors.

• 9/26/2025 Connecticut Sues to Block Illegal Conditions on Programs that Support Comprehensive Sexual Health Education

  Attorney General William Tong and a coalition of 16 states and the District Columbia today sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to stop the Trump Administration from arbitrarily pulling funding for longstanding teen reproductive and sexual health education programs from states unless they remove language regarding gender identity.

• 9/25/2025 Attorney General Tong Wins Court Order Protecting Billions in Federal Emergency Services Funding

  Attorney General William Tong today announced Connecticut has won a court order prohibiting the Trump administration from illegally coercing states into performing federal immigration enforcement functions by threatening to withhold billions in funding for emergency preparedness and preventing and addressing terrorist attacks, mass shootings, wildfires, floods, cybersecurity threats and more.

• 9/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Preliminary Injunction Granted in Orsted Challenge to Baseless Revolution Wind Stop Work Order

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction blocking the baseless stop work order that had halted construction of Revolution Wind, allowing work on the project to resume immediately.

• 9/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Leads States, Counties, and Cities in Fighting Rescission of EPA's Landmark 2009 Endangerment Funding

  Attorney General William Tong today co-led a coalition of 23 attorneys general and 7 counties and cities opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rescission of its landmark Endangerment Finding that affirmed greenhouse gas emissions, including from motor vehicles, drive climate change and endanger public health and welfare.

• 9/17/2025 Attorney General Tong Files for Preliminary Injunction to Immediately Halt Revolution Wind Stop Work Order

  Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha announced they are seeking a preliminary injunction to immediately block the baseless stop work order abruptly issued on August 22 halting construction of Revolution Wind.