Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring legal issues in the news. And Today, Bloomberg Law Hosttum Grosso and Greg Sture speak with James Tierney, former main attorney general and lecturer at Harvard Law School, and Paul Nolett, a professor at Marquette University Law School, about how Democrats
planned to battle the Trump administration in court. Paul, as you look over the legal landscape, and of course we don't know exactly what the Trump administration is going to do, But where do you think Democratic attorneys general are likely to have the biggest impact? Is that filling in the regulatory gaps? Is it challenging, say, environmental regulations. Where do
you see them making a mark? Well, I think just in terms of pure quantity of litigation, I think the one of the big focal points will be definitely an environmental policy. Um and so at the beginning of the Trump administration, I think it will be some continuing skirmishes over some of Obama's regulatory efforts like the Clean Power Plane, the waters of the US rule, and other things like that.
But I think throughout the Trump administer reason I would expect to see quite a lot of wrangling over UM de regulatory efforts coming out of the e p A, and UH potentially a variety of other new environmental issues
coming out of the next few years as well. I think part of it will be going after the FEDS directly, so suing the e p A, trying to delay or stop deregulatory efforts, But some of it will also potentially be going after say utilities or industry in general, kind of similar to what some AGS have done UM investigating Exxon over the past year and their connection to UM climate research and potentially sweeping some of that research under
the RUG. So I see those areas being particularly prominent areas for AGES in the coming years, Jim, any other hot button areas were democratic ages have the best chance of winning. You know, my friend Paul makes some good points, but he, I'm sure would say that a lot of that sort of speculations this point were we really don't know. UM. I think a g s are going to be very focused on criminal justice reform, and we don't know what
the Trump administration's position will be. All ages are against hate, crunt and will you know, we'll roll up to sleeves on that. I think dealing with an increasingly diverse population that we have in this country. If you're in a g is pretty important. What kids are in school, what about witnesses in court? What about victims of crime? Um, A lot of these things, don't you know, don't pay attention to some of these legal status in the country.
So I see a lot of diversity related issues. I thought former CIA Director Robert Gates made a good point when he said, you know, people say one things in campaigns, they act a lot differently once they're in office. And I think that all ages, and democratic ages in particular, are certainly willing to give the Trump administration the chance to see what they're really going to do. Um. He does come in personally with a bad rep from his
Trump University days. Every Attorney General look at that case and was pretty disturbed by the behavior of Trump University. That was none of the partisan issue. So, uh, he's on everybody's watched list. Uh and maybe the Attorney's General looking particularly closely, but we'll have to wait and see what happens. And that's James Tierney, former main Attorney General and lecturer at Harvard Law School, and Paul Nolett, a professor at Marquette University Law School, speaking with Bloomberg Law
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