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Connecticut’s attorney general joined a multistate lawsuit in August to keep the federal government from getting access to the national commercial driver license (CDL) database.
Then, on September 1, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) piled on.
AFT President Randi Weingarten said the intervention is about protecting employee “privacy against the vindictive nature of this president and his cronies” since "many AFT members require a CDL to work as school bus drivers."
It turns out the union represents thousands of transportation workers, including school bus drivers who hold commercial driver’s licenses. Those records sit in the Commercial Driver's License Information System (CDLIS)—the network states use to track CDL holders.
AFT’s intervention complaint argues that the Trump Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) want the files, and that the administration intends to share them with the Department of Homeland Security for immigration enforcement.
That's quite a tell.
If every CDL on the list belongs to a citizen or a lawfully present worker who earned the license the usual way, a privacy fight is at least coherent.
But if the database also contains people who should never have been behind the wheel of a bus or a tractor-trailer in the first place due to their unlawful status, then blocking the records is not privacy. It is obstruction.
Commercial licenses exist because the public is supposed to know who is qualified and who is even allowed to hold the credential. A union that represents drivers should be first in line for a clean list. Instead, AFT, like the blue-state coalition Connecticut joined, treats a federal demand for the state’s licensing data as a raid.
The Connecticut chapter of AFT claims more than 30,000 members across roughly 90 to 100 locals—including teachers and school support staff, higher education faculty, hospital workers, and state employees. Federal filings put the 2025 count at 30,682. While no breakdown is provided for the number of AFT transportation workers in the state, AFT says it represents about 13,500 transportation workers nationally, including school bus drivers who hold CDLs.
Now Connecticut parents are left to wonder who is driving the bus.
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That a "union" can obstruct justice is incomprehensible. That the corrupt state supports the obstruction just shows how deep the insurrection has gone.