Wisconsin’s new Democratic attorney general is shifting the state Justice Department away from his Republican predecessor’s conservative stances on everything from health care to high-capacity wells.
Josh Kaul defeated Attorney General Brad Schimel in November as part of a Democratic sweep of all statewide offices.
In his first four months in office, Kaul has fulfilled his campaign promise to withdraw Wisconsin out of a multistate lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act.
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He has also switched sides in lawsuits over whether the state Department of Natural Resources can legally impose tighter regulations on factory farms and high-capacity wells, re-aligning with environmental advocacy group Clean Wisconsin.
Republicans said Kaul can’t be trusted to defend GOP-passed laws, but Kaul said he’s not being ideological and he just views the law differently.
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