On the Issues

As a prosecutor and a legislator, Kwame Raoul built a reputation for taking the lead in defending the rights of Illinois families. Kwame’s commitment to Democratic values led his fellow attorneys general to elect him to serve as their Co-Chair and guide their joint efforts through the second Trump administration. Please explore the topics below to learn more about Kwame and why he’s the best choice for attorney general.

FIGHTING CRIME IN OUR COMMUNITIES

For two decades, Kwame Raoul has prioritized efforts to fight crime in Illinois and reduce the number of illegal guns on our streets.

Created state of the art crime gun tracing platform and worked closely with the ATF and data scientists to track trafficked guns
Recognized by the ATF’s Chicago office for efforts fighting gun trafficking
Prosecuted numerous gun trafficking cases, including working alongside the U.S. ATF to investigate and prosecute alleged firearm trafficking by suspected members of the Venezuela-based gang Tren de Aragua.
Worked with the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center on efforts to prevent mass violence at schools, places of worship, and public spaces

ADVOCATING FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Kwame is a national leader in the fight to protect a woman’s right to access health care. He has repeatedly defended reproductive rights in Illinois, while protecting both patients and providers.

Protected the fundamental right to abortion by defending the Reproductive Health Act.
Advocated in the legislature and provided guidance on how to protect patients and providers from states attempting to criminalize people for seeking care in Illinois.
Protected access to mifepristone, commonly known as the abortion pill.
Defended the state law that prohibits discrimination based on a person’s reproductive health decisions.
Sued the Trump administration to protect funding for Title X family planning services.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Kwame Raoul knows the importance of protecting youth on social media. He has held platforms accountable for profiting from addictive features that contribute to young users’ declining wellbeing.

Kwame has prioritized protecting youth on social media from mental health harms and he has taken a leadership role in going after major tech companies to hold platforms accountable.
Secured a $17 billion settlement requiring Meta to implement safety features and content controls to protect young users, one of the state’s largest big tech settlements.
Sued TikTok for its harmful business practices targeting children and allegedly deceiving the public about the social media platform’s dangers.
IL is the leading state on investigation into another platform popular among young users.

PROTECTING CHILDREN

Protecting children from online predators has been one of Kwame Raoul’s top priorities, and his office has played a key role in the arrests of more than 1,000 child predators. He’s fought for tougher sentences for people who abuse or exploit children and has led national efforts to hold social media companies accountable for the dangers they’ve posed to children.

Kwame has been active in going after internet crimes against children by investigating and arresting online child predators, many of which admit to being hands-on offenders. Since the beginning of his administration in 2019, his office has been involved in over 1,250 arrests of online child predators
The AG’s office has partnered with state, local, and federal offices and task forces to combat online child predators
The Illinois Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was involved in rescuing 135 child victims from ongoing abuse since the beginning of Kwame’s tenure.
His office has provided internet safety training and education to over 1 million parents, teachers and students, and over 25,000 law enforcement professionals

FIGHTING FOR AFFORDABILITY

Amid the current cost-of-living crisis, Kwame is committed to ending price gouging. He has prioritized holding companies accountable for driving prices up.

Kwame has gone after unfair monopolies and anti competition mergers which would drive prices up for consumers
Sued Live Nation over allegations it raised costs for fans and artists and suppressed competition
He has successfully sued to stop unlawful and deceptive junk fees.
Kwame has responded to and resolved numerous price gouging complaints.
His office is fighting to keep the price of drugs down by holding pharmacy benefit managers accountable for driving up their own profits at the expense of patients and state actors that have contracted with them.

HOLDING THE LINE AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Kwame Raoul is using every available legal tool to proactively fight the Trump agenda. He has repeatedly held the Trump administration accountable for attempts to violate the rule of law and withhold funding that supports critical programs across the state.

Filed over 80 lawsuits against the federal government overreach and defended an additional 10 cases
Protected over $10 billion of funding for Illinois as a result of such challenges
Kwame has secured a favorable court decision in about 90% of the cases against the federal administration where a decision has been issued
When Donald Trump tried to unconstitutionally upend birthright citizenship and militarize American cities, Kwame didn’t wait, he took action. He took Trump all the way to the Supreme Court to keep the National Guard off the streets of American cities and preserve birthright citizenship.

Kwame Raoul has proactively fought the federal government’s unconstitutional and unlawful overreach in its attempt to deploy the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

Stopped the Trump administration’s attempt to militarize the National Guard against American citizens by successfully challenging all the way up to the Supreme Court the deployment of the Texas and Illinois National Guard in Illinois
He has sued the Department of Homeland Security over their tactics during Operation Midway Blitz.

STANDING WITH WORKERS

Kwame Raoul is the champion Illinois workers need. He’s fought to protect and expand workers’ rights in Illinois and hold corporations accountable for wage theft and worker safety.

During his tenure, the Attorney General’s office has launched over 115 investigations of workers rights violations and recovered more than $30 million for Illinois workers.
Kwame has doubled the size of the bureau and enhanced the investigative process to protect workers’ rights.
Opposed Trump administration efforts to eliminate the longstanding requirement for employers to report workforce demographics to the EEOC amid concerns it would likely lead to increased employment discrimination.
Kwame has opposed misclassification rules changes and opposed a narrowed joint employment standard.

ORGANIZED RETAIL CRIME

Kwame Raoul has taken the lead on protecting businesses across Illinois. He created the state’s first official task force to investigate organize retail crime smash-and-grab crimes, which has recovered millions in stolen merchandise.

Kwame established the Illinois Organized Retail Crime Task Force, the first large-scale, public-private collaboration in Illinois.
Kwame heads a national working group combating organized retail crime and has urged Congress to address the rise in organized retail crime across the country.
IL has recovered over millions of dollars of stolen merchandise through the ORC Task Force.

FIGHTING FRAUD AND CORRUPTION

Raoul has sued countless bad actors for fraudulent and deceptive practices, returning millions of dollars to Illinois consumers.

The DEA recognized the IL AG’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit recovery of over $1 million in fraudulent Medicaid and Medicare payments.
Prosecuted dozens of individuals for PPP loan fraud.
Prosecuted over 160 public corruption cases.