Several attorneys general, including Mayes, Platkin, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta have vowed to uphold the right and find legal routes to fight the order.

Ryan Strasser, Amy Pritchard Williams and Ashley Taylor of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP discuss three ways state attorney general actions differ from litigation with private parties ...

The June primary for California attorney general is a fight for second place Three of the candidates running to replace Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, the Democratic incumbent.

The attorney general’s job expands far beyond crime, said Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative and a former deputy under then-Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris.

Former Maine Attorney General James Tierney knows a thing or two about the job. He has been a go-to adviser for state attorneys general and teaches a class on them at Harvard Law School.

Initially, the attorney general served part time. Indeed, for the first few decades of U.S. history, most attorneys general maintained private law practices and even lived away from the capital.

"Any attorney general is going to be called upon to make some very tough decisions on some very controversial issues," said Keisler. "That's the nature of the job." Politically fraught cases ...