- Who Is Lawfully the Attorney General Right Now? http://reason.com/volokh/2018/11/10/who-is-lawfully-the-attorney-general-rig 36 comments moderatepolitics
- Trump’s Acting Attorney General of the Country Suggested He “Believes” in States’ Right to Nullify Federal Laws https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/trump-acting-attorney-general-whitaker-believes-states-right-nullify-federal-laws.html 59 comments politics
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions, marijuana legalization opponent, says states have 'right to set their own laws' https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/attorney_general_jeff_sessions.html 6 comments politics
- Justice Department Sues Missouri Over Expansive Gun-Rights Law: Attorney General Merrick Garland argued that the law allowing citizens to sue police for $50,000 for violating their right to bear arms was unconstitutional https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/us/politics/missouri-gun-rights-law.html 7 comments law
- Exxon Sues a Second Attorney General To Fight Off Climate Fraud Probe | "The law is clear: The First Amendment does not give any corporation the right to commit fraud." http://insideclimatenews.org/news/16062016/exxon-sues-massachusetts-attorney-general-climate-change-fraud-investigation 340 comments politics
- Republican attorneys general mount a new attack on the EPA’s use of civil rights law | Twenty-three states want the Biden administration's EPA to curtail its approach to environmental justice. https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/04/republican-attorneys-general-mount-new-attack-epas-use-civil-rights-law/396180/ 6 comments politics
- The Obama administration will seek a law allowing terror *suspects* to be exempt from Miranda Rights. With Attorney General Holder proposing carving out a broad new exceptions. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/us/politics/10holder.html?hpw 82 comments politics
- Proposed changes to remove hate speech from Australia's racial discrimination laws have sparked a wave of criticism - Attorney general argues that 'people have the right to be bigots' http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201403251855-0023584 12 comments worldnews
- Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday urged states to repeal laws that prohibit felons from voting, a move that would restore the right to vote to millions of people. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/us/politics/holder-urges-states-to-repeal-bans-on-voting-by-felons.html?_r=0 376 comments politics
- Supreme Court to consider GOP lawmakers' right to defend North Carolina voter ID law: GOP state legislators argue Democratic attorney general will not do enough to uphold the statute https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/24/supreme-court-north-carolina-voter-id-law-523294 13 comments law
- Justice Department Announces Sweeping Probe Into Phoenix Police | Attorney General Merrick Garland announced an investigation into whether the Arizona city and its police department have violated civil rights laws. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/phoenix-arizona-police-probe-justice-department_n_610c2678e4b06253fa4c468e 7 comments politics
- Case challenging Va.'s ‘red flag’ law dismissed | A court case challenging Virginia’s “red flag” law was dismissed on Friday after Attorney General Mark Herring argued that the measure did not violate constitutional rights. https://www.nbc12.com/2020/11/15/case-challenging-va-red-flag-law-dismissed/ 7 comments politics
- Court to hear bid for new defense of Kentucky abortion law - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Kentucky's attorney general, who wants to be allowed to defend a restriction on abortion rights that lower courts had struck down. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-abortion-kentucky-iduskbn2bl1vx 6 comments politics
- Lawmaker who authored the Special Counsel rules: "The attorney general can -- and should -- release the Mueller report. The public has every right to see Robert S. Mueller III's conclusions. Absolutely nothing in the law or the regulations prevents the report from becoming public." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/23/i-wrote-special-counsel-rules-attorney-general-can-should-release-mueller-report/ 33 comments law
- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, appearing at a Martin Luther King holiday rally in South Carolina, warned on Monday that voting rights laws are still at risk and said aggressive enforcement of those laws is "a moral imperative." http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/16/us-usa-voterid-idustre80f1cb20120116 4 comments politics
- Australia to consider European-style right to be forgotten privacy laws | Attorney general promises ‘whole range’ of modernisations of the Privacy Act to follow new customer data protection laws https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/19/right-to-be-forgotten-australia-europe-gdpr-privacy-laws 2 comments technology
- Australia to consider European-style right to be forgotten privacy laws | Attorney general promises a ‘whole range’ of modernisations of the Privacy Act to follow new customer data protection laws https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/19/right-to-be-forgotten-australia-europe-gdpr-privacy-laws 17 comments worldnews
- We Can End Qualified Immunity Tomorrow | We need not wait for Congress or the Supreme Court to deny police officers qualified immunity when they violate constitutional rights. State attorneys general and city law departments can—and should—lead the charge themselves. https://bostonreview.net/law-justice/alex-reinert-we-can-end-qualified-immunity-tomorrow 6 comments politics
- Australia's Attorney General in battle with the nation's media over new anti-discrimination laws which would make it illegal to offend or insult a person. A TV station has already had to defend in court it's right to broadcast a documentary on the Armenian genocide because it is offensive. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/nicola-roxons-discrimination-laws-draw-flak-from-media/story-e6frg996-1226549911052 249 comments worldnews