U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds Tennessee’s Ballot Access Laws

by Kaitlin Housler | May 5, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled to uphold a district court’s dismissal of a case brought by the Libertarian Party of Tennessee and four of its members challenging the state of Tennessee’s ballot access laws. In Tennessee, statewide parties...

President Trump Nominates Tennessee’s Whitney Hermandorfer to Serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals

by Kaitlin Housler | May 2, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South

President Donald Trump announced his nomination of Whitney Hermandorfer, who works in the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General as director of the Strategic Litigation Unit, to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, marking the first judicial...

Tennessee AG Skrmetti Applauds District Court Ruling Finding Google Illegally Monopolized Digital Advertising Markets

by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 21, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti applauded a federal court’s recent ruling in a federal antitrust case against Google, which found that the tech company violated the law by maintaining illegal monopolies in the digital advertising technology industry. On...

Tennessee AG Skrmetti Calls on Trump Administration to Crack Down on Illegal Chinese E-Cigarettes Marketed to Minors

by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 14, 2025 | News, Politics, Tennessee, The South

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is among a coalition of attorneys general representing 28 states and Guam calling on the Trump administration to crack down on illegal Chinese e-cigarettes being flooded into the U.S. The attorneys general request the...

Tennessee Attorney General Warns Phone Providers over Unlawful Robocall Traffic

by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 11, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti was among a bipartisan coalition of 51 attorneys general of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, who sent letters to nine phone service providers alleging them of unlawfully routing robocalls. On Wednesday,...

Birthright Citizenship, Contraband Cellphones: Tennessee AG Skrmetti Discusses Current Focuses of His Office

by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 7, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said his office is focused on multiple fronts ranging from issues at the state level to advocating for issues that would impact the entire nation. On Monday, Skrmetti and other attorneys general gathered in Nashville for...

Tennessee AG Skrmetti Leads Multi-State Push for Congress to Pass Legislation to Curb Contraband Cellphones in Prisons

by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 26, 2025 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The South

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti led a bipartisan coalition of 30 attorneys general on Wednesday in calling on congressional lawmakers to pass legislation aimed at disrupting contraband cellphone use in prisons. Skrmetti and the coalition is calling on...

Federal Judge Approves NCAA Settlement in Lawsuit Led by Tennessee over NIL Recruitment Ban

by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 25, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South

A federal judge approved a final settlement deal between a bipartisan coalition of states led by Tennessee with the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) over its name, image, and likeness (NIL) recruitment ban, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti...

‘Laudable’: Public Policy Expert Applauds Tennessee Attorney General’s ‘Wildly Popular’ Wins for Tennesseans

by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 26, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South

Recovering journalist and Nashville-area public policy expert Clint Brewer thinks Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti would be a strong candidate if he were to run for governor in 2026. “If this were a state where the attorney general was elected, we’d...

Winning: Tennessee’s Law Limiting Drag Shows for Kids Stands as Supreme Court Declines Appeal

by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 25, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South, TN LEAD

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to review a lower court’s decision to uphold Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act in the case Friends of George’s v. Mulroy on Monday. The Adult Entertainment Act, which was signed into law in 2023 by Governor Bill Lee, prohibits...