On Nov. 9, 2020, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, acting in his capacity as Chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association, announces that he and other GOP members were taking legal action aimed at invalidating mail-in votes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Image credit: Lamar White, Jr. | Bayou Brief.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!” Mark Twain, autobiographical dictation, Dec. 2, 1906.
PROLOGUE
In the late morning of Jan. 6, 2021, only a few minutes after President Donald Trump took the stage at the Ellipse, the park overlooking the South Lawn of the White House, Louisiana’s chief legal officer, Jeff Landry, opened a press conference in Baton Rouge.
The Republican Attorneys General Association raised $1.6 million between November 24 and December 31 last year as Republican attorneys general challenged election results, its latest IRS filing discloses.
Clockwise from top left: Patrick Morrisey, Daniel Cameron, Ken Paxton, Lynn Fitch, Jeff Landry, and Leslie Rutledge. Win McNamee/Getty Images; AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley; REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst; AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call; Drew Angerer/Getty Images. This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
GOP attorneys general across the country say they re the last line of defense against Democrats.
They ve already started suing the Biden administration. They got their practice in the Obama years.
Expect steady lawsuits from state GOP lawyers hoping to thwart Biden s agenda in court.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron should be impeached
OPINION: Cameron not only denied justice for Breonna Taylor but also joined a lawsuit supporting Trump s voter fraud lies Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron speaks during September’s press conference to announce a grand jury’s decision to indict one of three Louisville Metro Police Department officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
Daniel Cameron, the first Black attorney general from the great state of Kentucky via the
Mitch McConnell plantation, probably could not have imagined a Black woman named
Breonna Taylor or any Black woman could cost him his job.