Archive for the ‘Attorney General News’ Category

From heraldextra.com:

Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff plans to stay in office and intends to work during treatments for cancer over six months.

He said Tuesday he will begin chemotherapy for colon cancer by the end of January. Treatments will be done every two weeks.

Shurtleff, 53, was diagnosed with cancer after a tumor was discovered earlier this month in his appendix during a routine medical exam. The tumor was removed, but cancer was found in three lymph nodes.

Flanked by his doctor, his wife and his youngest daughter, Shurtleff spoke to the media at the Salt Lake City medical clinic where he will be treated.

He was mostly optimistic, especially when vowing to overcome the cancer and have the strength to remain in office.

Read the Rest…

From post-trib.com:

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller and his office vow to make the General Assembly put public safety as its No. 1 priority, though he’ll have to do it with less help and less money.

The office was not immune to cuts, Zoeller said Monday at a preview of his annual year-end wrapup at his Merrillville office. Five attorney positions will be eliminated from his office — bringing the total number of attorneys to 139 from the current 144 — and $1.6 million was cut from his $16.8 million budget. Some working in his collections department have already been cut in favor of outsourcing to other agencies.

Read the Rest…

From KnoxNews:

Desmond, active in the Tennessee Liberty Alliance and Patriots of East Tennessee, said the immediate focus will be on some states’ rights issues with the Tennessee Legislature.

“The federal government is overreaching. There’s the Obamacare (health care reform) issue. The attorney general is not on board to fight that. We want to get our attorney general elected. That will be one of the things we’ll get legislation to pursue,” Desmond said.

Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper has refused to join other states in lawsuits challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The attorney general is appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court, while those in most states are elected officials.

Read the Rest…

Republican Mike DeWine is focused on being the Attorney General of Ohio.

From the Columbus Dispatch:

There will be no rematch between Democrat Sherrod Brown and Republican Mike DeWine for the U.S. Senate in 2012.

DeWine, who was elected Nov. 2 to a four term as Ohio attorney general, called to make that crystal clear.

“I am planning on being attorney general. I am not running for U.S. Senate.”

DeWine was in the Senate for 12 years until Brown defeated him in 2006. Talk about a rematch was spawned this week by a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling which showed DeWine and Brown tied in a hypothetical rematch, each with 43 percent. This afternoon, PPP released a survey showing that DeWine would be the first choice among Ohio Republicans to take on Brown in 2012.

Read the Rest…

From KVUE.com:

A federal judge in Florida on Thursday heard arguments that the Obama administration’s health care law is unconstitutional.

Texas joined Florida’s lawsuit against the federal government, so Attorney General Greg Abbott traveled to the Sunshine State today to make arguments on the state’s behalf.

Nineteen other states including Texas, Michigan, Mississippi, and Louisiana, joined with Florida in its lawsuit. Their argument: if the federal government can be allowed to require Americans to buy health insurance, what is to keep them from requiring Americans to purchase other healthy items, even broccoli?

“This is the biggest encroachment upon our freedom that Congress has ever levied and if Congress has the power to force Americans to go out and buy something, Americans will lose their freedom,” said Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott.

Read the Rest…

Check out the interview with Hopkins County Attorney Todd P’Pool.

From CN2 Politics:

After filing his paperwork at the Secretary of State’s office at 10:20 a.m., P’Pool addressed the media and first explained the origins of his unusual name.

He said his family name was originally Pettypool but it was reduced to a shorthand version of P’Pool in the early 1800s.

P’Pool, 37, is a University of Kentucky graduate and was the first Republican since the Reconstruction Era elected to county-wide office in Hopkins County when he won in 2006.

He was a key player in the construction of the Wingshadow Lodge, a branch of Teen Challenge, which is a tax-exempt, faith-based organization that allows men fighting drug addiction to live and work at the facility outside of Dixon in western Kentucky.

Read the Rest…

From tampabay.com:

The score is now 2 to 1.

Two judges have said the federal health care law is constitutional. This week in Virginia, a third judge ruled it was unconstitutional.

This morning in Pensacola, Florida and 19 other states will go before yet a fourth federal judge with yet another challenge to the law.

No matter what, everybody expects the whole thing to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Still, this week’s ruling in Virginia proved that the case is not a slam-dunk either way — and it is already a partial vindication for our state’s Republican attorney general, Bill McCollum.

Read the Rest…

From KRMG.com:

Oklahoma Attorney General-elect Scott Pruitt applauds the decision in a Virginia court to strike down at least part of the new federal health care law. Pruitt says he plans to take legal action against the law as well once he takes office.

Pruitt says he’s still weighing whether to take action here on Oklahoma or join one of the other suits against the law. He describes the action by Virginia as a rifle shot that took out the most egregious part of the law and the actions by Florida as a shotgun approach that has had several parts thrown out.

Read the Rest…

The Jeopardy! champ and short term Attorney General has caught the eye of the Administration.

From Dayton Daily News:

Bloomberg News is reporting that Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray will head the enforcement arm of the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection in Washington, D.C.

Cordray, a Democrat who lost re-election last month to Republican Mike DeWine, is expected to speak with the media about his future plans on Wednesday afternoon.

Cordray has served as a state lawmaker, Franklin County treasurer, state treasurer and attorney general and he is a Jeopardy! game show champion. He clerked for two U.S. Supreme Court justices and personally argued seven cases before the high court.

Read the Rest…