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TexasTowelie

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Sat Mar 25, 2017, 08:35 PM Mar 2017

Missouri's attorney general sues Trump to help Trump

Last edited Thu Mar 30, 2017, 04:20 AM - Edit history (1)

JEFFERSON CITY -- Attorney General Josh Hawley has a plan for helping President Donald Trump.

He’s going to sue him.

A lot.

It was a pledge Hawley, a Republican from Columbia, made the centerpiece of his successful campaign last year when he vowed to go to court any time he felt the federal government overstepped its authority. And in his first month in office, he initiated or signed on to four lawsuits seeking to repeal federal regulations implemented during President Barack Obama’s administration.

Earlier this month, he filed a brief in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. government’s consumer protection arm, arguing the agency’s “out-of-control regulations have been hurting Missourians for years.”

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article140682468.html

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