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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson recently announced priorities for his 2021 legislative agenda. These priorities include public safety and criminal justice reform, tribal treaty rights, and protecting consumers. With respect to the last priority on consumer protection, Attorney General Ferguson is supporting two bills in the Washington legislature:
Price Gouging – SB 5191. Currently Washington does not have a specific law prohibiting price gouging during a state of emergency. Attorney General Ferguson would like to change that. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the attorney general’s office received more than 1,300 complaints regarding excessive price increases on essential items like face masks or hand sanitizer. Attorney General Ferguson supports a bill to provide a clear an unambiguous definition of price gouging and which imposes civil penalties for violations. The bill is sponsored in the legislature by
The effort to prevent the priceless federal records stored at Seattle's National Archives from leaving the Washington has progressed on two distinct tracks.
AG Ferguson battles on multiple fronts to save Seattle’s National Archives
Seattle s National Archives Facility.(Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio)
UPDATE, 1/4/21: Attorney General Bob Ferguson will be delivering a press conference Monday at 10 a.m., providing an update on the battle to save Seattle’s National Archives.
ORIGINAL STORY, published on 12/29/20:
The general public will finally get a chance to formally weigh in on the controversial decision to close the Seattle facility of the National Archives and move its priceless Northwest photos, maps, and documents to California and Missouri.
That chance to voice opinions in favor of or against the closure will come through a virtual public meeting scheduled to take place via Zoom on Tuesday, Jan. 19, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
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On December 7, 2020, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson
issued guidance for third-party food delivery services regarding
increased prices. The guidance follows Washington Governor Jay
Inselee s November 19
proclamation enacting a cap on fees third-party delivery
services can charge restaurants. The proclamation capped
delivery fees at 15%, and total fees at 18% of the purchase price.
AG Ferguson, Washington GOP lawmakers clash over lawsuit seeking to overturn election
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the state’s Congressional Republicans find themselves on opposite sides of a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Texas, levying unsubstantiated accusations of voter fraud in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a combined 62 electoral votes that went to President-elect Joe Biden.
Republican attorneys general in 17 states filed motions supporting the lawsuit, joined by 106 Congressional Republicans in a Thursday court filing. That includes Washington Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse. Notably absent from Thursday’s filing was Rep. Jaime Herrera Butler, who recently won reelection to Congress, but chose not to join her fellow