Tag: Dave Yost

15 States Side With DeSantis in Battle Over Right to Oust Prosecutors

April 26, 2023
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A coalition of 15 attorneys general is urging a federal appeals court “to affirm states’ authority” to remove local prosecutors who, motivated by leftist ideology, refuse to enforce laws. “Prosecutors have no right to exercise a veto over an entire law,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said in a news release. “But some are acting…

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Ohio Citizens Vow to Not Give Up After Vaccine Mandate Initiative Is Rejected Again

March 23, 2022
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A group of Ohio citizens says they will not give up after Attorney General Dave Yost rejected a March 11 proposed statute to ban vaccine mandates. It was the fourth time that Yost turned down the initiative. This time, he cited grounds that ballot summary language provided by the proposal’s supporters is inaccurate. Yost sent…

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Ohio AG: Study Links Opioid Deaths to Stimulus Checks

February 18, 2022
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A study released Thursday by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost links COVID-19 stimulus checks to increases in deaths caused by opioid overdoses across the country. The study, which Yost said in a news release had been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication by the International Journal of Drug Policy in April, used data from the Ohio…

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Ambiguous Tax Mandate Provision in Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Relief Package

July 3, 2021
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A federal judge issued a permanent injunction on Thursday to block the ambiguous tax mandate in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. U.S. District Judge Douglas R. Cole from the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled that the tax mandate in the America Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)—which seems to tie…

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Ohio Files Lawsuit Seeking to Declare Google a Public Utility

June 9, 2021
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, asking the court to declare the company a public utility and put the tech giant under government regulation. “Google uses its dominance of Internet search to steer Ohioans to Google’s own products—that’s discriminatory and anti-competitive,” Yost said in a statement. “When you own the…

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