SPOKANE, Wash. – Attorney General candidate Pete Serrano (R) filed a lawsuit against Washington State University last week. It marks the second major lawsuit brought by Serrano against an eastern Washington institution in recent months.
Serrano is the director of the Silent Majority Foundation, a conservative legal advocacy organization that focuses on gun rights and combatting business regulation. As the general counsel of that group, Serrano is currently championing lawsuits against both WSU and the City of Spokane.
His lawsuit against the city was filed in January according to the Inlander. It claims that a city council resolution condemning the appearance of former mayor Nadine Woodward with violated Feucht’s first amendment rights. Woodward filed her own lawsuit unassociated with Serrano
The WSU lawsuit was filed on behalf of Renata Moon, a former WSU College of Medicine professor who relinquished her own Washington medical license after endorsing misinformation about COVID-19.
Rob Waites, the director of communications for the Silent Majority Foundation, argues that the lawsuits are in-line with the vision of Serrano’s foundation.
“The majority of our eastern Washington cases are against governments, we’re a constitutional organization, it’s what we do,” Waites said.
The lawsuits place Serrano at a unique juncture of state politics, given that he is both the mayor of Pasco, a candidate for attorney general and the director of a legal organization critical of local governments.
NonStop Local KHQ reached out to both Serrano and his Democratic attorney general race opponent Nick Brown for comment, but did not hear back.
