Issue Position: Protecting Oklahoma from the Federal Overreach

Issue Position

We are living in a time of an egregiously expansive federal government, which far too often seems to ignore the states' role in our system of cooperative federalism. It is a time, wherein states are being forced to aggressively fight back in order to protect the basic rights reserved to the states by our founders.

As the Attorney General of Oklahoma, I will not relent in the fight against the federal government in stances of clear and unconstitutional overreach. All the while, I will continue to champion limited government, legal reform, personal responsibility, free enterprise, judicial restraint, aggressive crime fighting, equal opportunity and the preservation of our conservative values in Oklahoma.

As Attorney General, I have created a unit to protect Oklahoma and Oklahomans from federal overreach. In this capacity, we are fighting the implementation of costly "regional haze" regulations, and have the nation's only remaining lawsuit aimed at stopping the Affordable Care Act's unconstitutional penalties and we continue to do all we can to fight back against the offensive assault to religious liberty. We have also engaged in other issues such as the Dodd-Frank bill, which protects large banks at the expense of Oklahoma-based community banks and actually jeopardizes pensions and retirement plans of Oklahomans.

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