After SPIN! Video: Should the Attorney General defend laws he doesn't agree with?
Published September 14, 2016
After SPIN! "Question to Rufus Edmisten – Our Constitution says that the state Attorney General is to advocate for the state in court legal battles. In recent months the Governor and the legislature have spent more than 9 million dollars hiring their own legal counsel because they say Attorney General Cooper won’t properly defend laws they have passed. Roy Cooper has indeed refused to defend some laws on the grounds they aren’t constitutional. It raises the question whether the Attorney General has the privilege of deciding whether or not to defend laws that have been passed. You were the AG for many years. What’s your take on whether the Attorney General must defend the laws whether he agrees with them or not?"
