Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers

“It’s not clear how many county attorneys and district attorneys will decide to enforce or fight their state abortion policies. But that leads to an uncertain legal landscape, said former Maine Attorney General James Tierney, a Democrat who is now a Harvard Law School lecturer. ‘We’re talking real chaos here,’ he said.”

Lauren Weber and Sam Whitehead, “Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers,” CNN and Kaiser Family Foundation, August 19, 2022.