State attorneys general are moving at a rapid pace in their legal fight to slow or block President Trump’s agenda.

States have banded together and filed more joint lawsuits against the Trump administration in three years than against any other administration in decades, according to a new study that looked back as far as 1980. Marquette University assistant professor Paul Nolette found that state attorneys general had filed 103 multistate lawsuits against the federal government since Trump’s first day in office through Feb. 1.

The amount of multistate lawsuits against Trump in his first term is over four times higher than what President Barack Obama faced in his first term. Over the course of two terms, Obama faced the second-most multistate lawsuits at 78. Former President George W. Bush faced 76.

Coalitions of Democratic attorneys general have filed the vast majority of lawsuits against the Trump administration. Democratic coalitions are responsible for 96 of the 103 lawsuits. Republican coalitions have filed six. One lawsuit came from a bipartisan coalition.

Nolette said the high number of lawsuits is not due to heightened partisanship or Trump. Rather, state attorneys general are increasingly using the court system to push their own agendas.

"It has much less to do with the Trump administration itself than it does with the attorneys general and how they’ve realized how effective their lawsuits are and how many incentives they have to bring these lawsuits in the first place," Nolette told the Hill. "This is a more permanent part of the landscape now."

According to Nolette’s data, lawsuits pushed by Democrats have had an 80% success rate against Trump, 20% higher than Republican-led lawsuits against the Obama administration.

"That’s a very high success rate, much higher than most litigants, actually. Even if they ultimately lose, there’s a real benefit to the lawsuit," Nolette said. "There’s pretty much all upside and not much downside to bringing these suits."