OLYMPIA — Attorney General Ferguson today issued the following statement regarding the temporary restraining order granted in the 3D printed guns case:

Proposed rule will severely diminish women’s access to family planning services

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson, joined by three other attorneys general, today urged the Trump Administration to withdraw a proposed rule that would reduce women’s family planning options, interfere in doctor-patient relationships and potentially leave many vulnerable women with no healthcare access at all.

UPDATE: Amended complaint adds states, brings total to 20. 

Downloadable guns make weapons easier for criminals to obtain

Edwin Cruz-Perez and Maurice Terry repeatedly violated two court orders

TACOMA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed criminal charges against Edwin Cruz-Perez and Maurice Terry for repeatedly violating previous orders to stop providing unqualified immigration services to Washington consumers.

Alejandro Sandoval and his company must pay back $25,000 in workers’ wages

SEATTLE — A Maple Valley contractor and his company must pay back more than $25,000 in unpaid wages in addition to unreported workers’ compensation insurance after a joint investigation by the Attorney General’s Office and the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I).

EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler reverses Pruitt decision to remove cap on glider truck manufacturing

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to withdraw former Administrator Scott Pruitt’s action to remove caps on the annual number of “glider” trucks allowed. Glider trucks are trucks built with a new body, or chassis, but outfitted with highly polluting, refurbished engines that skirt modern emissions standards.

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today issued the following statement regarding his latest lawsuit against the Trump Administration for its efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act. The lawsuit, filed by Ferguson and 11 other attorneys general, challenges a Department of Labor rule that allows small businesses and self-employed individuals to join association health plans, which could significantly draw healthy people out of state health care exchanges.

Census has not asked a citizenship question since 1950

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement today, after U.S. District Court Judge Jesse M. Furman rejected the Trump Administration’s attempt to dismiss Ferguson’s multistate lawsuit over the federal government’s decision to include a question about citizenship status in the 2020 U.S. Census.

Advertisers of housing, credit, employment, insurance and public accommodations can no longer discriminate by excluding protected groups

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that Facebook signed a legally binding agreement with his office to make significant changes to its advertising platform by removing the ability of third-party advertisers to exclude ethnic and religious minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals and other protected groups from seeing their ads.

La jueza citó la “naturaleza caótica y desorganizada” de la separación de las familias