Jonathan Skrmetti has been quite busy. Since assuming office in 2022, the attorney general has been involved in numerous lawsuits representing the state of Tennessee — not in the interest of the public, as is the intention of the position, but largely in service to the GOP’s exclusive and authoritarian vision for this state.
This isn’t to say that Skrmetti hasn’t pursued litigation in ways beneficial to the average Tennessean.
In 2023, the attorney general sued more than 20 companies in Tennessee that manufacture PFAS, a substance commonly referred to as “forever chemicals” that the Environmental Protection Agency has found to be potentially “linked to harmful health effects in humans.”
Skrmetti filed a lawsuit that same year against Meta — the corporation that owns Facebook and Instagram — over those social media platforms allegedly harming children.
Amid the public uproar over the 2022 Taylor Swift-Ticketmaster fiasco — the astronomically high-price tickets, sold by Ticketmaster, to see the singer-songwriter perform live during her Eras Tour — Skrmetti had Tennessee join 32 other states in filing litigation against Live Nation, the owner of Ticketmaster.