When Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul last week sued the U.S Department of Health and Human Services over its push to curtail gender-affirming care for young people, it put a bow on a year of legal actions against the Trump administration.

The AG’s office has signed onto 48 lawsuits against the administration since President Donald Trump’s term began in January, according to a breakdown provided by the office.

Overall, states, nonprofits, local governments and unions have filed hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration, according to an Associated Press tracker. Not all of them have been successful: 149 resulted in executive actions partially or fully blocked, while the court left the action in effect in 102 cases with more than 100 still pending.

Here’s where things stand with four high-profile legal actions taken by Illinois this year.

Gender-affirming care

Raoul as part of a coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued HHS, its inspector general and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over proposals that warned providers they could lose funding from programs like Medicare and Medicaid if they provide treatments like puberty blockers or hormone therapy to children and adolescents, The Associated Press reported.

The department issued a declaration saying those gender-affirming treatments were ineffective and unsafe for kids.

“Secretary Kennedy does not have the authority to undermine medical standards of care or set conditions on participation in Medicaid and Medicare through a so-called declaration,” Raoul said in a statement accompanying the lawsuit. “The Trump administration is once again circumventing the law to cruelly target transgender youth and their medical providers.”

Some Chicago-area hospital systems already scaled back their gender-affirming care for kids amid the threat of losing federal funding, the Tribune previously reported: University of Chicago Medicine stopped providing gender-affirming pediatric care this summer, and Advocate Health Care said in August it would no longer provide gender-affirming medications to patients younger than 19.

“Under my leadership, and answering President Trump’s call to action, the federal government will do everything in its power to stop unsafe, irreversible practices that put our children at risk,” Kennedy said in a statement supporting the administration’s move.

The American Academy of Pediatrics supports access to gender-affirming care for minors.

The rules on funding haven’t gone into effect, and the public has until mid-February to comment on them, according to Raoul’s office.

National Guard

Also last week, the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court denied a request from the Trump administration to allow him to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois while a court battle continues.

Both Gov. JB Pritzker and Raoul, whose legal team argued the case against federal deployment of Illinois National Guard troops during Trump’s immigration enforcement surge this fall, celebrated the ruling.

Over Pritzker’s objections, hundreds of Illinois National Guard troops remain under Trump’s control to support the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement efforts in the Chicago area, even though the guard members have carried out no significant operational missions and have spent most of their time stationed at a northern Illinois base. The Trump administration’s stated purpose for federalizing the Illinois National Guard members was to protect federal officers and assets during the administration’s ramped-up immigration enforcement efforts.

With last week’s Supreme Court ruling, it remains to be seen how much longer those troops will truly remain under the president’s purview.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson previously said that nothing in the ruling detracts from the president’s “core agenda” of activating the National Guard to protect federal law enforcement and federal property.

Americorps funding

After a monthslong legal battle, a coalition of states and attorneys general announced in August that the White House Office of Management and Budget and AmeriCorps planned to release $184 million that the OMB had previously withheld.

In April, a coalition sued to challenge the administration’s move to terminate nearly $400 million worth of Americorps programs. The administration had eliminated state-administered grants for 28 AmeriCorps programs in Illinois, affecting more than 630 members statewide.

The sprawling programming at AmeriCorps, an agency with an operating budget of $1 billion, was a target of critics who cited it as an example of government bloat.

A preliminary injunction in June reinstated hundreds of programs, but “OMB continued to withhold over $184 million,” according to Raoul’s office. After the coalition including Illinois filed a motion to stop OMB from withholding the funds, OMB announced it “would release all withheld AmeriCorps funds,” Raoul’s office said.

OMB didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Consumer protections funding

Among the more recent actions from Illinois against the Trump administration was a multistate lawsuit to force the Trump administration to fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the watchdog agency intended to safeguard consumers.

The Trump administration has argued CFPB can only be funded by profits from the Federal Reserve, which has been running at a loss since 2022, the AP reported.

The acting director of CFPB, Russell Vought, is also the director of the Office of Management and Budget, where he has led many of the administration’s efforts to slash federal funding and bureaucracy.

Raoul earlier this year said he sees a greater workload for his office on the horizon as leadership at federal agencies, including the CFPB and others, have signaled a reduced enforcement in certain areas.

“They’re not going to be there, right, to fight for consumers, to fight for civil rights of citizens,” he said at the time.

The Associated Press contributed.