Attorney General Nick Brown has named Managing Assistant Attorney General Patricio Marquez to serve as the Division Chief of the Wing Luke Civil Rights Division in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO).

Marquez joined the AGO in 2014 and was the third lawyer hired into the then-Civil Rights Unit in 2016. He has been a manager in the division for the last seven years and has demonstrated his ability to serve as a strong leader and steward of the Civil Rights Division, as well as a member of the AGO’s leadership team.

Attorney General Nick Brown is co-leading a multistate amicus brief filed today defending birthright citizenship at the U.S. Supreme Court, standing up to President Trump’s illegal effort to rewrite the Constitution and overturn federal law.

(Updated Feb. 24, 2026, to add the new deadlines set by the district court.)

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Washington and 15 other states today in their fifth court victory against the U.S. Department of Education’s unlawful discontinuation of previously approved mental health grants for K-12 schools.

Federal agencies unlawfully terminated funding for congressionally mandated energy programs, including more than $27 million for the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub, which aim to significantly reduce emissions driving climate change, Attorney General Nick Brown and 12 other attorneys general argued in a lawsuit filed today.

Attorney General Nick Brown and a multistate coalition today filed a motion asking the District Court of Massachusetts to enforce its order prohibiting the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from terminating the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program (BRIC) and directing the agency to promptly take all steps necessary to reverse the termination.  
 

Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule rescinding the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which determined that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles contribute to air pollution that drives climate change and endangers public health and welfare.

Attorney General Nick Brown and a coalition of 18 other attorneys general have secured an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that protects about $1.4 billion funding equal access to education for students from low-income families, English learners, children with disabilities, and other students in Washington state.