It was a busy 2024 for Washington State Attorney General and incoming Governor Bob Ferguson (D) winning more than $550.4 million for Washington residents in the first half of that year alone.
Ferguson is Washington’s 18th Attorney General. Since becoming Attorney General in 2012 he has been praised by Democrats and Progressives for suing the Trump Administration 97 times and blocked his executive order to ban travel to Muslim countries and stood up for the rights of same-sex couples in Washington when he filed a consumer protection lawsuit against a Richland florist for refusing to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding.
Ferguson launched an Organized Retail Crime Theft Task Force, formed the Wing Luke Civil Rights Division, filed multiple legal actions regarding the cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation site, created the Counsel for Environmental Protection and the Office of Military and Veteran Legal Assistance, and stood up for victims of sexual abuse by leading the effort to put an end to Washington’s rape kit backlog.
The Attorney General announced back in August that his office’s civil law enforcement division won more than $2.6 billion in the last decade through 800 cases, as a result of lawsuits and its handling of consumer complaints. That includes nearly $800 million for Washingtonians in the form of direct payments, debt relief and consumer credits. The office won another $1.8 billion for increased government and non-profit services, including $1.1 billion to combat the fentanyl epidemic…