As Attorney General, Andy Beshear sued the Obama administration for regulations that hurt Kentucky.
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Real Time with Bill MaherOct 24, 2026
No independent source in the set documents a lawsuit by Andy Beshear against the Obama administration as Kentucky attorney general. The only support is Beshear's own remarks in the Bill Maher transcript and a 2025 interview, which cannot corroborate the claim. The extraction is faithful to the post, and the sources neither confirm nor refute it.
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… Kentucky is ten points redder than California is blue. Really? Yes, and so when I ran, it was all about representing my people. I would stand up against a president of any party if they were doing something that would harm the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As Attorney General, I sued the Obama administration for certain regulations that hurt us, but right now we've got a president that sent National Guard to occupy this city. He's not going to be popular in California, and if you're going to be the governor of California, you've got to stand up for its people, even against a president of your own …
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Context. Beshear served as Kentucky attorney general from 2016 to 2019, and the sources document several of his lawsuits against Republican targets, including Gov. Matt Bevin, Johnson & Johnson, and the Trump administration.[1][2][3][4]
Context. The only references to a suit against the Obama administration are Beshear's own statements in the Bill Maher transcript and a December 2025 interview. These are self-reports by the claimant and cannot independently corroborate the claim.[5][6]
Context. No source addresses the specific Obama-era suit, its target regulations, or its impact on Kentucky, so the claim cannot be graded in either direction.
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 2, 4 not rated
- 1Kentucky accuses J&J of contributing to opioid epidemicreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Kentucky’s attorney general sues governor over higher-education cutswashingtonpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 3Andy Beshear - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Kentucky AG sues over Trump's health care orderwcpo.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Real Time with Bill Maher - Ep. #746: Karoline Leavitt, Gov. ...podscripts.co · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Kentucky Gov. Beshear talks pre-K for all, federal cuts and Democrat midterm strategywkms.org · not rated · cited for: context
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