Meet the Republican AGs Driving Their Party Off a Cliff

The rule of law is so passé, y'all.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seems to love being the worst. He was indicted on felony securities fraud charges in 2015, for starters. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

RAGA is the Republican Attorneys General Association. It’s essentially what it sounds like—a bunch of Republican attorneys general whose goal is to get other Republican attorneys general elected to office. Seems (relatively) normal, right?

Well, it would be, except the group has gone completely off the deep end. On top of a lot of their members fighting to overturn the 2020 election, there are disturbing connections between RAGA and the insurrection at the Capitol in January.

On this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy take us into the smoky backroom world of RAGA to give us an inside look at their half-alarming, half-embarrassing schemes and the creeps behind them.

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