Taxpayers are funding expensive international travel of state attorneys general and family members—or what some critics call “junkets”—by paying for their membership in the Attorney General Alliance, a group that has come under scrutiny for ties to lobbyists and corporate donors in recent years.
States pay annual $18,000 membership dues to the AGA, which covers “travel scholarships,” as well as “continuing legal education,” according to documents obtained by The Daily Signal from Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown’s office.
The documents provide information about Brown, a Democrat, attending trips along with other state attorneys general from both parties sponsored by the AGA in France in 2024 and South Africa in 2023.
The AGA has been accused of granting access for lobbyists to the state attorneys that could in some cases be the…
