INDIANAPOLIS – Attorney General Curtis Hill today announced that he has joined 14 other state attorneys general in the fight to uphold the Congressional Review Act.
Hill and the 14 other attorneys general recently filed a proposed friend-of-the-court brief in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska in the case of Center for Biological Diversity v. Ryan Zinke and Department of the Interior. The brief defends the constitutionality of the Congressional Review Act, which gives Congress the power to review federal regulations through an expedited legislative process.
In the brief, the 15 state attorneys general argue that the Congressional Review Act is a tool that allows states to work with Congress to stop unlawful regulation. The brief also states that Congress has used the Congressional Review Act numerous times in just the last six months to eliminate unlawful and burdensome rules, many of which had imposed harms on the states.
Hill joined state attorneys general from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin in this fight to uphold the Congressional Review Act.
