Title: Patrick Morrisey - Wikipedia
Headings: Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
Contents
Early life and education
Career in law and lobbying
Attorney General
Federal lawsuits
DEA opioid lawsuit
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Power Plan litigation
Second Amendment
Supreme Court
2020 Presidential election intervention
Political positions
Abortion
Opioid addiction
Sanctuary cities
Guns
Immigration
Drug companies
Sex trafficking
2018 U.S. Senate election
Personal life
Electoral history
References
External links

Content: As a lobbyist, he was viewed as an expert on health and drug-related regulations and legislation. He was paid $250,000 to lobby on behalf of a pharmaceutical trade group. The group was funded by some of the same opioid distributors that West Virginia sued for flooding the state with opioids. Attorney General
In 2012, Morrisey ran for Attorney General of West Virginia against Darrell McGraw, a five-term incumbent. He defeated McGraw and was sworn in on January 14, 2013, making him the first Republican state Attorney General to serve in West Virginia since 1933. Federal lawsuits
DEA opioid lawsuit
Morrisey sued the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to release its data on opioid sales, and about the sales quota system that it uses to regulate opioid manufacturers, the first ever such lawsuit in West Virginia history. He placed a hold on the lawsuit after successfully negotiating with the Trump administration to have the DEA reconsider whether or not to amend the aggregate quota system. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
In 2014, Morrisey filed suit against the Federal government of the United States, challenging regulatory changes described by the Obama Administration as an administrative fix to the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Morrisey's lawsuit, State of West Virginia v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was dismissed by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in 2015. Morrisey appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which in 2016 again rejected the suit, finding that West Virginia has suffered no injury-in-fact and thus lacked standing.