Andrew Bailey

Andrew Bai­ley is the Attor­ney Gen­er­al of Mis­souri and a promi­nent fig­ure with­in the Amer­i­can nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive move­ment. A for­mer com­bat vet­er­an and con­sti­tu­tion­al lawyer, Bai­ley was appoint­ed Attor­ney Gen­er­al in 2023 after serv­ing as gen­er­al coun­sel to Gov­er­nor Mike Par­son. Since assum­ing office, he has aggres­sive­ly posi­tioned him­self at the fore­front of cul­ture-war lit­i­ga­tion, fil­ing law­suits aimed at cur­tail­ing gen­der-affirm­ing care, abor­tion access, and diver­si­ty, equi­ty, and inclu­sion (DEI) ini­tia­tives. Bai­ley has aligned close­ly with oth­er Repub­li­can attor­neys gen­er­al in chal­leng­ing Biden admin­is­tra­tion poli­cies on immi­gra­tion, stu­dent debt, and ESG (envi­ron­men­tal, social, gov­er­nance) invest­ing. His appoint­ment of Josh Divine—a known nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive and Fed­er­al­ist Soci­ety affiliate—as Solic­i­tor Gen­er­al fur­ther sig­naled a delib­er­ate ide­o­log­i­cal turn. Pub­licly iden­ti­fy­ing as a “con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ser­v­a­tive,” Bai­ley has defend­ed Don­ald Trump in legal mat­ters, tar­get­ed cor­po­ra­tions over per­ceived “woke” agen­das, and pro­mot­ed leg­is­la­tion and lit­i­ga­tion designed to reshape insti­tu­tions along nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive lines. His rhetoric empha­sizes sov­er­eign­ty, tra­di­tion­al val­ues, and the rejec­tion of pro­gres­sive cul­tur­al norms, mark­ing him as a key legal archi­tect of the nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive project at the state level.

Ref­er­ences:

• Andrew Bai­ley – Wikipedia

• Mis­souri AG Andrew Bai­ley Sues Star­bucks Over DEI

• Bai­ley Brings on Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Fig­ure Josh Divine

• About AG Bai­ley – Mis­souri Attor­ney General’s Office