Ashley L. Taylor, Jr., a partner in Troutman Pepper Locke’s Regulatory Investigations, Strategy, and Enforcement Practice Group, was quoted in the June 27, 2025 Law.com article, “AG Bonta Says Fight Over Birthright Citizenship to Continue Despite SCOTUS Order on Injunctions.”

  • Ashley Taylor Jr., co-leader of Troutman Pepper Locke’s state attorneys general practice, said in an interview Friday that the high court’s decision in Trump v. Casa Inc. “creates a legal landscape that, once reconstructed, certainly opens spaces that only states’ attorneys general can fill. The question is, will they?”
  • State attorneys general “have the muscle memories” to expand those non-litigation powers into other areas of the law, Taylor said.
  • “Attorneys general are still uniquely positioned to achieve nationwide relief in different ways,” he said.

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