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RAGA Leadership, A Fraught History: Steve Marshall

Ethics in GovernmentState Attorneys General
RAGA Leadership, A Fraught History: Steve Marshall

Alabama’s Attorney General, Steve Marshall, has spent his time in office funneling tens of millions of dollars to outside counsel in order to defend the state’s litany of laws prohibiting gender affirming care and Alabama’s notoriously violent prisons. Alabama, under Marshall’s stewardship, earmarked no less than $14.9 million to a single attorney to represent the state against DOJ prison suits over the next two years, even though that same attorney has already received $17.8 million from state coffers over the past five. That single attorney, Bill Lunsford, also donated $1000 to Marshall’s campaign in 2018. 

Marshall also ran the Rule of Law Defense Fund – RAGA’s fundraising arm – when it issued robocalls encouraging people to march on the Capitol in 2021 to “Stop the Steal.” Marshall claimed that the calls went out without his knowledge, but he refused to tell Congress whether RLDF staff were present on January 6th, refused to disclose where he was before and during the storming of the Capitol, and denied public records requests for his calendars. 

Despite leading RLDF while it helped organize the insurrection that took place on January 6th, Marshall was elected by his peers to lead RAGA just a year later.

Steve Marshall has been Alabama’s Attorney General since 2017, and was RAGA’s Chairman from 2022 – 2023.

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“Attorney General Steve Marshall” from the Alabama Attorney General’s Office.

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