Maine Attorney General (AG) Aaron Frey signed a confidential agreement with Democrat Attorneys General just weeks after the 2024 election to develop a strategy to oppose President Donald Trump’s agenda despite his democratic victory.

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project first published the confidential agreement on Monday, showing that the Democratic attorneys general of 22 states, along with the head attorneys for San Francisco, California, and Washington D.C., wasted no time in opposing the President’s plan to solve the illegal immigration crisis.

“Despite the mandate from the American People to end the border crisis and return immigration enforcement to the United States, politicians instead acted to frantically preserve their perceived political gains of the Biden Border Crisis,” said the Oversight Project in its release of the agreement.

The agreement focused primarily on developing a legal strategy to oppose President Trump’s promised plan to end birthright citizenship, the policy that allows children born to illegal immigrants on U.S. soil to become citizens.

Trump has since attempted to implement that plan through an executive order signed on the first day of his presidency.

The agreement provides very few details on the plan to oppose Trump; instead, it acknowledges that the parties will plot a legal challenge to the end of birthright citizenship. The majority of the text is devoted to the technicalities of the agreement rather than the actual strategy.

“The parties have agreed that they have a common interest in developing potential litigation to challenge executive action ending or curtailing birthright citizenship,” said the agreement.

The secret agreement allowed the attorneys general to share confidential information in their quest to oppose an end to birthright citizenship and allowed them to discuss legal strategy without the fear of public scrutiny.

The secretive alliance of AGs appears to have been a roadmap to action.

Just one day after Trump’s order, Frey, along with 18 other state AGs, filed a lawsuit against the president, arguing that the end of birthright citizenship violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the citizenship clause of which states “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Defenders of birthright citizenship often point to this clause as definitive proof that the children of illegal immigrants should become citizens, while opponents often contend that does not align with the amendment’s original purpose.

Conservatives typically argue that the amendment was originally and specifically intended to ensure that the children of freed slaves became citizens.

They argue that illegal immigrants, unlike freed slaves, are not subject to the nation’s jurisdiction and are thus exempt from the amendment.

Since Trump took office less than a full month ago, Frey has signed on to multiple lawsuits and statements condemning Trump’s policies, including his efforts to cut wasteful government spending and his opposition to irreversible and potentially damaging transgender medicine for children.

Read the full secret agreement here: