The state attorney-general offices that have led the charge against Biden administration overreach over the last two years are changing direction and hemorrhaging staff, leaving some conservative legal insiders concerned that they will no longer serve as a key check on the president.
With Republicans shut out of power until this month, conservatives have relied heavily on large, well-resourced red states to push back on the excesses of Democrat-controlled Washington, Big Tech malfeasance, and ideologically captured financial firms. Former Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt and Texas attorney general Ken Paxton captured the headlines throughout the first half of the administration, jointly leading challenges in the Supreme Court to the health-care-worker vaccine mandate, cancellation of the Trump-era Remain in Mexico policy, and President Joe Biden’s student-loan bailout.
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