A recent report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has received wide media attention, has come to the conclusion that evidence for anthropogenic global warming is “undeniable.” This has, of course, been seized on by alarmists as confirming that all of their proposed solutions to future warming must…

In response to a lawsuit by the Obama Justice Department, a federal judge appointed by Bill Clinton has enjoined parts of Arizona’s new law cracking down on illegal immigrants, finding them to be “preempted” by federal law.  While most parts of Arizona’s law are unwise (like its citizen suit provision), the claim that…

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has a truly awful record, as today’s Wall Street Journal notes, citing his links to trial lawyers who tried to bribe a judge, and his dishonest attempts to deny those links.

CEI recently rated the nation’s worst state attorney generals, but it only listed the six worst, which didn’t include Hood.  Hood clearly would make a list of the top ten worst state attorney generals, though.  (CEI once issued such a top-ten list, back in 2007, which Hood narrowly avoided making.  Here’s that list, and my here’s my op-ed describing the worst three attorneys general on that list, Richard Blumenthal, Bill Lockyer, and Eliot Spitzer.)

The six worst attorney generals this year are (1) Jerry Brown (California), (2) Richard…

Today, CEI sent a letter to all members of Congress regarding H.R. 5034. This is the bill that would allow states to impose a host of regulations that could impede commerce of wine, including direct shipping to consumers. Details and a link to the letter can be found in our…

The nation’s worst state attorney generals use lawsuits as a weapon to redistribute billions of dollars from businesses and consumers to their wealthy trial-lawyer friends and their political cronies, as I document in a recent study.

They also fail to perform their most basic job duties, like defending state agencies and state laws against politically-motivated left-wing lawsuits.

The list of the nation’s worst state attorneys general can be found at this link.   The list is topped by California’s Jerry Brown, Connecticut’s Dick Blumenthal, and Oklahoma’s Drew Edmondson.

I explain why California Attorney General Jerry Brown is the nation’s worst state attorney general at this link.

The grades the worst attorney generals got are listed at the bottom of this link.

Earlier, I described the misdeeds of some memorably…

The Dodd–Frank Financial Regulation Bill, which President Obama signed today, created yet another Czar to head yet another Executive Agency, the soon to be formed Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Both the AFL-CIO and the SEIU have lobbied the administration to appoint Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor who was one of the main architects of the Bureau as its head. Warren was also the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel in charge of evaluating how effectively the TARP money was spent.

A senior source within the SEIU told the Huffington Post, Union “President Mary Kay Henry will ‘raise the point that Elizabeth Warren would be an excellent head of the newly created Consumer Protection Agency’ in private talks with Treasury…