2025 Press Releases

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• 3/7/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Coalition of State Attorneys General, DOJ Submit Final Proposed Fix to End Google's Search Monopoly

  A coalition of 38 State Attorneys General and the Justice Department today proposed a final package of remedies to end Google’s illegal monopoly over internet search engines and restore competition to the benefit of consumers nationwide.

• 1/20/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Trump Attack on Birthright Citizenship

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional executive order attacking birthright citizenship.

• 1/16/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Coordinated Coast-to-Coast Crackdown on Bootleg, Highly Addictive, Disposable E-Cigarettes Used By Youth

  As part of a coordinated coast-to-coast crackdown on bootleg nicotine products, Attorney General William Tong announced he has served civil investigative demands on 12 Connecticut smoke shops and convenience stores and two wholesalers found selling highly-potent, illegally imported disposable e-cigarettes flavored and designed to appeal to youth.

• 1/28/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Devastating Memo from Trump Office of Management and Budget Ordering Lawless, Sweeping Stop to Federal Funding

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement in response to the devastating memo issued by President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget ordering a lawless and sweeping stop to federal grant funding.

• 1/27/2025 Attorney General Tong Congratulates Judicial Nominees

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement congratulating the nominations of 20 individuals by Governor Ned Lamont to serve as judges and magistrates throughout Connecticut’s state court system, including Deputy Associate Attorney General Daniel Shapiro, Chief of the Health and Education Section, to the Superior Court.

• 1/23/2025 Joint Statement from Twelve State Attorneys General: State and Local Law Enforcement Cannot be Commandeered for Federal Immigration Enforcement

  Attorney General William Tong, along with the attorneys general of California, New York, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont, today issued a joint statement addressing a memorandum from a Trump political appointee at the U.S. Department of Justice addressing state and local involvement in federal immigration enforcement.

• 1/23/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Purdue Pharma and Sackler Family to Pay $7.4 Billion to Victims, Survivors and States in Settlement in Principle

  Attorney General William Tong today announced a $7.4 billion settlement in principle between states, victims and members of the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma, Inc. (Purdue) for their role in the opioid crisis. The settlement in principle adds $1.4 billion more than the prior settlement invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2024, while also accelerating aid to states and victims to fund opioid treatment and recovery.

• 1/23/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Temporary Restraining Order Blocking President Trump’s Unconstitutional Attack on Birthright Citizenship

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement after a federal judge in Washington issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional attack on birthright citizenship.

• 1/14/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces $1.5 Million Settlement with Carvana Following Hundreds of Consumer Complaints

  Attorney General William Tong today announced a $1.5 million settlement with online used car dealer Carvana following hundreds of consumer complaints involving extended delays in title and registration documents, delayed payments to sellers, and deceptive representations of car conditions and features, among other complaints.

• 6/5/2025 Attorney General Tong Wins Court Order Blocking Trump Administration's Dismantling of AmeriCorps

  Attorney General William Tong today won a court order that blocks the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism.

• 6/4/2025 Attorney General Tong Urges Court to Protect Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

  Attorney General William Tong today joined 18 other attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, supporting the right of the American people to cast their ballots free from racial discrimination.

• 6/9/2025 Attorney General Tong Supports Harvard University's Challenge to the Trump Administration's Retaliatory Federal Funding Freeze

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, supporting Harvard University’s motion for summary judgment in litigation against a number of federal agencies for their unlawful cancellation of more than $2 billion in federal funding to the university.

• 5/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Leads Bipartisan Coalition of Attorneys General Urging Congress to Preserve Access to Health Care for 9/11 Responders and Survivors

  Attorney General William Tong this week led a bipartisan coalition of 39 attorneys general urging Congress to take immediate action to address the impending funding crisis threatening the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), a lifeline for more than 135,000 first responders, survivors, and families impacted by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

• 1/17/2025 Attorney General Tong Leads Amicus Brief Defending Nationwide PFAS Forever Chemical Drinking Water Standards

  Attorney General William Tong today led a coalition of 18 attorneys general filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit defending a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule establishing nationwide drinking water standards for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl “PFAS” forever chemicals under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

• 1/20/2025 A Message from Attorney General William Tong Ahead of the Inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement and video message to Connecticut ahead of the inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump.