Government Accountability & Oversight
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring was hit with a lawsuit on Wednesday for his involvement in a questionable program that places privately funded environmental activists in his office. The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed the lawsuit as part of its continuing efforts to expose what it sees as a scheme. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (above […]
A Washington, D.C.-based think tank filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming Virginia’s attorney general office is hiding documents showing the extent of the state’s role in an attorney general-led climate crusade. Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Chris Horner is suing Virginia for repeatedly denying requests for information supposedly confirming the state’s authority to hire privately funded lawyers. Horner argues state […]
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring was hit with a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at unearthing the details of his efforts to bring on a lawyer to pursue climate litigation through a program paid for by billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Chris Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), said he filed the lawsuit after Mr. Herring’s office refused to provide […]
Government Accountability & Oversight’s (and Virginia Citizen) Christopher Horner and the free-market public policy group Competitive Enterprise Institute today sued Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring under Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act. The lawsuit, filed in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, aims to: Reconcile contradictory positions of the Office of Attorney General (OAG) regarding its […]
Public records, including those from Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, show a pattern of law enforcement offices turning to off-the-books payments for privately funded lawyers to push a political agenda that was roundly rejected at the ballot box by the American people The scheme raises serious questions about special interests setting states’ policy and law […]