Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is applauding a federal appeal’s court ruling that blocks President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban. “Our system of checks and balances is kicking in,” Herring told WAMU after the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling against Trump’s order prohibiting travel from six predominately Muslim countries. Herring filed […]

Shortly after taking office more than three years ago, Virginia’s top cop toured the state and was blown away to learn how bad the opioid epidemic was. Since then, he says he’s made combating the crisis a top priority. “The numbers are so big they almost don’t seem real,” Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said […]

Attorney General Mark Herring was in Lynchburg earlier this month, part of a statewide tour to draw attention to a health crisis that claimed the lives of more than 1,100 Virginians last year: opioid abuse and addiction. The attorney general convened a forum of community leaders and those on the frontline locally in the fight […]

Virginia became the first state since President Donald Trump abandoned rules to reduce power plant emissions to begin drafting rules to replace the federal mandate. At a press conference on Tuesday morning, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) ordered state air regulators to propose rules by the end of the year to scale back carbon dioxide emissions […]

Twenty state attorneys general are calling on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel in the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. In a letter to Rosenstein, who recommended the firing of James Comey as FBI director, the group of attorneys general argue that the public deserves a thorough […]