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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 21, 2021

Sen. Paul Bailey, R-Sparta, says he will hold off on a proposal to limit the attorney general's power to represent state interests in federal court after Attorney General Herbert Slatery's office expressed willingness to address lawmakers’ concerns, the Tennessean reports. "The commitment is that they are willing to sit down, hear all of our concerns and see if there is not a way that those concerns can be met without fully pulling the solicitor general's office outside of the attorney general's office," Bailey said. The bill would have removed the solicitor general from the attorney general's office and made the position accountable to the legislature.