State Attorneys General

Civics 101

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🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We often hear them referred to as the “top cop” of a state. The attorneys general are the chief legal advisors and law enforcement officers, the ones in charge of statewide investigations and asserting state sovereignty. They sue presidential administrations and big businesses, give press conferences and advise the legislature. But what is the daily business of a state attorney general? How does the “People’s Lawyer” actually work for the people? Our guests are former New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney and New Hampshire policy experts Jackie Benson and Anna Brown.

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0:00.0	I've always thought that it was a really big flex for someone to say like you'll be
0:05.3	hearing from my lawyer.
0:07.2	To me that's like, you're big time.
0:10.6	I had a friend in high school who had a lawyer and he carried his business card for whenever
0:14.0	he got pulled over and apparently it worked very well.
0:16.7	No.
0:17.7	Yeah.
0:18.7	I wonder how he's doing.
0:20.5	Though technically everyone who lives in the United States has a lawyer.
0:29.1	The people's lawyer.
0:31.2	A person whose role is ostensibly to represent the public's interest in every state.
0:36.3	And if you pick up the newspaper any day and read the front page, usually you will find
0:41.9	the Attorney General's Office involved in most of the cases that are journalists are reporting
0:48.6	on every day.
0:49.9	This is Civics 101.
0:50.9	I'm Hannah McCarthy.
0:51.9	I'm Nick Kepady-Chi.
0:52.9	And today we are looking at the chief legal advisors and law enforcement officers of
0:57.2	our country.
0:58.6	The state's attorneys general.
1:01.0	Attorneys general like Culls DeSac or Wappers Jr.
1:06.6	And every thought about Wappers Jr.
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