Jun 25, 2019
Our coverage of the 2020 Montana
Attorney General’s race continues this week with Democratic
candidate for Attorney General Raph Graybill.
Currently the Chief Legal Counsel for Governor Steve Bullock,
Graybill said he’s running on his belief that the Attorney
General’s job is to serve as a proactive advocate for consumers
against the influence of ideological courts and industrial
interests. “I want to live in a world where corporations and the
powerful can’t use courts and the legislature and fine print to
dictate our choices,” he said.
In his role with the governor’s office, Graybill has been involved
with litigation around dark money and public land access. His
experience also includes education at some of the legal field’s
most revered institutions as well as work with drafting the
Affordable Care Act and the USS Cole bombing case.
“I see the war on workers and on wages and on the middle class,” he
also said. “It isn’t being waged in the open; it’s being waged in
fine print. It’s being waged through years of work to create
ideological structures around certain legal ideas and then putting
those people into courts as judges. Well, the framers of the
Constitution gave us a solution: They gave us an advocate who’s
loyal only to the public, and that’s the AG.”
This is our third interview covering the 2020 Montana Attorney
General’s race. Also profiled so far have been Graybill’s
Democratic primary opponent, three-term Montana State
Representative Kim Dudik, and Republican candidate Deputy Attorney
General Jon Bennion.