WHAT THE MONEY BUYS
ENDING ABORTION ACCESS
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RAGA pledged that future donations would be used to further undermine abortion rights across the country, and that the “battles to protect the unborn will now take place at the state level.”
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When a Texas court ruled that a 31-year-old woman with a non-viable pregnancy could have an abortion despite the state’s restrictions, RAGA AG Ken Paxton (TX) responded with a brazen threat to prosecute “hospitals, doctors, or anyone else” who would assist in providing the procedure.
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In July 2022, after a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio had to travel to Indiana to receive a lawful abortion, RAGA AG Todd Rokita (IN) threatened criminal charges against the doctor who performed the abortion.
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19 RAGA AGs demanded that the Biden administration allow states with abortion bans to obtain the private medical records of patients seeking legal health care in other states. The goal was to intimidate women across state lines and weaponize patients’ private health care information against them.
ASSAILING LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
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22 RAGA AGs filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop the agency from enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws based on gender or sexual orientation.
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RAGA AG Ken Paxton (TX) stated he would be “willing and able” to defend laws criminalizing same-sex intimacy.
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RAGA AG, Todd Rotika (IN), along with six consigners, sent a letter to Target insinuating that the retailer’s LGBTQ+ youth merchandise violates obscenity laws.
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Kansas RAGA AG Kris Kobach fought to end a requirement for Kansas to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates.
ATTACKING SOCIAL JUSTICE
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A group of 13 RAGA AGs, led by Jonathan Skrmetti (TN) and Kris Kobach (KS) “warned the nation’s biggest companies that diversity quotas in hiring are ‘immoral’ and said they would ‘vigorously’ seek legal action against employers with such practices.”
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During the 2020 George Floyd protests, the city of Mobile Alabama removed a confederate statue of Raphael Semmes. In response, RAGA AG Steve Marshall (AL) fined Mobile $25,000.
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Since RAGA AG Ken Paxton (TX) took office in 2015, at least 72% of the Election Integrity Unit’s prosecutions appear to have been against Black and Latinx individuals.
DESTROYING OUR ENVIRONMENT
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Led by RAGA AG Kris Kobach (KS), 15 RAGA AGs have attacked a proposal by the EPA to remove 9 million lead water lines across the country. In a comment letter to the EPA, Kobach and his colleagues call the proposed rule “unworkable, underfunded, and unnecessary.” They also say the benefits of removing lead pipes is “entirely speculative.”
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25 RAGA AGs sued the Labor Department over a Biden administration regulation that gives retirement plan sponsors more freedom to consider environmental, social, and governance factors when selecting investments.
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22 RAGA AGs asserted that the signatories of the Net Zero Financial Services Provider Alliance, which has a global goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, could violate antitrust laws by “using their market influence to enforce their collective climate agenda.”
ASSAULTING OUR DEMOCRACY
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Rule of Law Defense Fund, a RAGA offshoot, arranged for robocalls to Trump supporters urging them ”march to save America” by marching to the Capitol at 1pm on Jan. 6 to “stop the steal” and “continue the fight” against the presidential election results.
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In December 2020, RAGA AG Ken Paxton (TX) filed a lawsuit that sought to block Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin from certifying their results of the 2020 presidential election. 17 RAGA AGs signed onto the amicus brief. The lawsuit was characterized as a coup attempt by Trump and his allies rather than a serious legal case.
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In Brnovich v. DNC, the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act and made it more difficult to challenge discriminatory voting laws in court. The case was led by RAGA AG Mark Brnovich (AZ) and supported by a group of 17 RAGA AGs.
EVERYTHING ELSE
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RAGA AGs Ken Paxton (TX), Jeff Landry (LA) and Lynn Fitch (MS) sued the Biden administration seeking to strike down an executive order and related Department of Labor final rule raising the minimum wage for all federal contractors to $15 per hour and mandating overtime wages for employees working more than 40 hours per week.
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In August 2017, RAGA AG Patrick Morrisey (WV) led a 21-state coalition to urge the Supreme Court to strike down a gun safety measure in Maryland. The ban prohibits the sales, transfer, and possession of certain rapid-firing guns and large-capacity magazines.
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In 2023, RAGA AG Lynn Fitch (MS) declined to defend Mississippi's long-standing vaccination requirements against lawsuits by anti-vaccine groups. Before this move, Mississippi's vaccine requirements had resulted in one of the highest vaccination rates in the United States, with 99% of kindergarteners being immunized.
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RAGA AGs from six states asked a federal appeals court to reconsider their effort to block the Biden administration’s program to forgive student loan debt though they did not object to forgiving hundreds of millions of dollars in PPP pandemic loans to businesses and individuals.