Attorney general refuses to answer Hardaway’s voucher question

Slatery’s office cites ‘threat of litigation’ over education savings accounts

By , Daily Memphian Updated: April 16, 2019 7:44 PM CT | Published: April 16, 2019 2:33 PM CT

Worried about the “threat of litigation,” Attorney General Herbert Slatery’s office is declining to issue a legal opinion to state Rep. G.A. Hardaway about the constitutionality of Gov. Bill Lee’s education savings account bill.

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G.A. Hardaway herbert h. slatery House Bill 939 Plyler v. John Doe Tennessee Education Savings Account Act
Sam Stockard

Sam Stockard

Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.


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