OKLAHOMA CITY (April 2, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond made the following remarks today after the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state Legislature has authority to pass bills that create State-Tribal compacts. Drummond represented the legislative leadership in the lawsuit that Gov. Stitt had filed against them after lawmakers overrode two of his vetoes.
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April 2, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY (April 2, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond today argued before the Oklahoma Supreme Court against the unconstitutional approval of what would be the nation’s first taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious public charter school.
April 1, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY (April 1, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond will personally argue before the Oklahoma Supreme Court tomorrow in the lawsuit against members of the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board concerning their June 2023 unconstitutional approval of what would be the nation’s first taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious public charter school.
March 21, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 21, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond approved Oklahoma to join a multi-state coalition and the U.S. Department of Justice today in filing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for monopolizing smartphone markets.
March 21, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 21, 2024) -- A day after encouraging the Oklahoma legislature to pass its own version of Texas’ Senate Bill 4, Attorney General Gentner Drummond has joined a legal brief supporting Texas in its effort to preserve that law.
If successful, Oklahoma and other states will be empowered to declare illegal immigration a state crime and authorize state officials to enforce it. House and Senate leaders already have indicated a willingness to craft similar legislation to protect Oklahoma.
March 20, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 20, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond is urging Oklahoma legislators to act quickly this session to pass a measure allowing state law enforcement to arrest illegal immigrants. Drummond’s request comes a day after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt a similar Texas law being challenged by the Biden Administration.
March 19, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 19, 2024) - Attorney General Gentner Drummond is warning Oklahoma consumers about a rise in scams involving “Bitcoin ATMs” that are leaving victims with depleted bank accounts.
March 15, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 15, 2024) – The Office of the Attorney General today added four more counts of embezzlement against Oklahoma contractor Benjamin Moore in Pottawatomie County District Court.
Moore was charged in October with nine counts of felony embezzlement and a pattern of criminal offenses following an investigation by Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Consumer Protection Unit. Initially, Moore was accused of scamming $85,000 from nine customers for construction projects that were never completed.
March 15, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 15, 2024) –Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a group of 24 state attorneys general and one state legislature in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new methane emissions rule. The coalition has filed a petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to block the rule.
March 15, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 15 2024) - Attorney General Gentner Drummond has filed a lawsuit against a sham cancer charity for deceiving generous donors who offered financial support to women battling cancer.