SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 11 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined 19 attorneys general in a letter to U.S. Senate leaders, urging their legislative body "to promptly pass the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (ICC Act)." The letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was led by the State of Arkansas. On June 5, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton introduced this bill (S. 4484), following suc  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, July 11 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey led a 7-state coalition in filing suit against the Biden Administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for its illegal rule that forces healthcare providers to perform harmful gender-transition intervention procedures and forces states to pay for these procedures. The rule, which Congress did not authoriz  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, July 11 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led a 14-state coalition in a brief defending Arkansas's law preventing indoctrination in K-12 schools. In May, a federal court partially blocked an Arkansas law that bans indoctrination in schools. The law does not prevent teachers from instructing on any ideas or theories, but it does prevent schools from punishing kids for not accepting t  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 11 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Utah and Wyoming are teaming up to sue the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for skipping a step in the process before it imposed a rule that significantly impacts the management of millions of acres of federal land, and restricts your use of those lands. On this edition of the Legally Speaking podcast, we discuss the implications of this lawsuit with Assistant Attorney General Jason DeForest. The BL  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 10 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news: Attorney General Liz Murrill joined Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and a coalition of 23 state attorneys general in opposing the Biden administration's latest overreach into the livelihoods of middle-class Americans. This time, the administration has weaseled its way into laundry rooms in an attempt to further their radical energy policies by implementing harmful and costly standards on w  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 10 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on July 9, 2024: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined a coalition of 26 states that filed a brief Friday before the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the Hillsborough County Transit Authority's no-religious-speech advertising policy. The coalition urged the Court to review the policy because it infringed on the First Amendment rights of a Jewish synagogue, Young Israel of Tampa, to  more