TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 17, 2022

Tennessee's next state attorney general, Jonathan Skrmetti, is coming under criticism from Democratic legislators unhappy with recent comments that he might create a new special unit to handle suits against the federal government. Tennessee Senate Minority Leader Jeff Yarbro, a Nashville Democrat, said the "barrage of partisan, multistate litigation by attorneys general is a new phenomenon," and noted that the state had sued the federal government “17 times in the last 18 months.” Skrmetti has said the purpose of the unit would be to protect the agency's "nonpartisan" attorneys who do not want to work on ideological cases. Chattanooga Times Free Press has the story.