Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring
Speaker 1: legal issues in the news. And Today, Bloomberg Law Hosttum
Speaker 1: Grosso and Greg Sture speak with James Tierney, former main
Speaker 1: attorney general and lecturer at Harvard Law School, and Paul Nolett,
Speaker 1: a professor at Marquette University Law School, about how Democrats
Speaker 1: planned to battle the Trump administration in court. Paul, as
Speaker 1: you look over the legal landscape, and of course we
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what the Trump administration is going to do,
Speaker 1: But where do you think Democratic attorneys general are likely
Speaker 1: to have the biggest impact? Is that filling in the
Speaker 1: regulatory gaps? Is it challenging, say, environmental regulations. Where do
Speaker 1: you see them making a mark? Well, I think just
Speaker 1: in terms of pure quantity of litigation, I think the
Speaker 1: one of the big focal points will be definitely an
Speaker 1: environmental policy. Um and so at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: Trump administration, I think it will be some continuing skirmishes
Speaker 1: over some of Obama's regulatory efforts like the Clean Power Plane,
Speaker 1: the waters of the US rule, and other things like that.
Speaker 1: But I think throughout the Trump administer reason I would
Speaker 1: expect to see quite a lot of wrangling over UM
Speaker 1: de regulatory efforts coming out of the e p A,
Speaker 1: and UH potentially a variety of other new environmental issues
Speaker 1: coming out of the next few years as well. I
Speaker 1: think part of it will be going after the FEDS directly,
Speaker 1: so suing the e p A, trying to delay or
Speaker 1: stop deregulatory efforts, But some of it will also potentially
Speaker 1: be going after say utilities or industry in general, kind
Speaker 1: of similar to what some AGS have done UM investigating
Speaker 1: Exxon over the past year and their connection to UM
Speaker 1: climate research and potentially sweeping some of that research under
Speaker 1: the RUG. So I see those areas being particularly prominent
Speaker 1: areas for AGES in the coming years, Jim, any other
Speaker 1: hot button areas were democratic ages have the best chance
Speaker 1: of winning. You know, my friend Paul makes some good points,
Speaker 1: but he, I'm sure would say that a lot of
Speaker 1: that sort of speculations this point were we really don't know. UM.
Speaker 1: I think a g s are going to be very
Speaker 1: focused on criminal justice reform, and we don't know what
Speaker 1: the Trump administration's position will be. All ages are against hate,
Speaker 1: crunt and will you know, we'll roll up to sleeves
Speaker 1: on that. I think dealing with an increasingly diverse population
Speaker 1: that we have in this country. If you're in a
Speaker 1: g is pretty important. What kids are in school, what
Speaker 1: about witnesses in court? What about victims of crime? Um,
Speaker 1: A lot of these things, don't you know, don't pay
Speaker 1: attention to some of these legal status in the country.
Speaker 1: So I see a lot of diversity related issues. I
Speaker 1: thought former CIA Director Robert Gates made a good point
Speaker 1: when he said, you know, people say one things in campaigns,
Speaker 1: they act a lot differently once they're in office. And
Speaker 1: I think that all ages, and democratic ages in particular,
Speaker 1: are certainly willing to give the Trump administration the chance
Speaker 1: to see what they're really going to do. Um. He
Speaker 1: does come in personally with a bad rep from his
Speaker 1: Trump University days. Every Attorney General look at that case
Speaker 1: and was pretty disturbed by the behavior of Trump University.
Speaker 1: That was none of the partisan issue. So, uh, he's
Speaker 1: on everybody's watched list. Uh and maybe the Attorney's General
Speaker 1: looking particularly closely, but we'll have to wait and see
Speaker 1: what happens. And that's James Tierney, former main Attorney General
Speaker 1: and lecturer at Harvard Law School, and Paul Nolett, a
Speaker 1: professor at Marquette University Law School, speaking with Bloomberg Law
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