Attorney General Kevin Clarkson invented the idea that funding education a year in advance was improper. It was a political move to try to force the Legislature to appropriate money so the governor could veto hundreds of millions from schools. The scare tactic didn’t work.
Read MoreThe Alaska attorney general understood better than anyone that he had no business deciding the merits of a petition to recall the governor of Alaska.
Read MoreAlaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson has lost another round in state court in his anti-union crusade. It turns out the $600-an-hour discount legal help he sought from President Trump’s lawyers, the same guys who say the president if above the law, didn’t help.
Read MoreWhat happened Monday was that Attorney General Kevin Clarkson, a political operative, tried to protect his boss from a process guaranteed in the Constitution, while dressing up a glorified Dunleavy press release as scholarly analysis.
Read MoreThe recall campaign against former Gov. Wally Hickel and former Lt. Gov. Jack Coghill in 1991-93 was not at all like the campaign against Gov. Mike Dunleavy. The grounds for recall against Dunleavy are far more likely to prevail in court.
Read MoreWe should know Monday or Tuesday if the Dunleavy administration will allow the Dunleavy recall campaign to proceed or if it will invent legal excuses to add court delays to a process that has already gone on too long.
Read MoreThe state now plans to seek competitive bids to push AG Kevin Clarkson’s anti-union crusade through state and federal courts. With luck, whoever gets the job will match the “Alaska discounted rate” of $600 an hour.
Read MoreSupporters of the “Fair Share Act”, an initiative to raise Alaska taxes on the most profitable oil fields, will hold a kickoff event Sunday at 3 p.m. to bring the signature-collection drive to Fairbanks.
Read MoreWatch as Rep. Don Young headbutts a camera and refuses to answer a question about foreign governments interfering in U.S. elections.
Read MoreFormer Attorney General Craig Richards, now under contract to fight the recall of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, says the statewide campaign to remove the governor from office is all about opposition to Dunleavy making the tough decisions that he promised as a candidate.
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