Taylor, Treg
Registered Republican · AK
Taylor, Treg is a Registered Republican certified candidate for Governor of Alaska in the 2026 primary.
Where Taylor, Treg stands, based on their records
Supports
AI Regulation (1 record), Healthcare Affordability (1 record), Public Safety and Crime Control (1 record),
Opposes
Environment and Public Health (3 records), Gun Control (3 records)
Track record
Track record — AI Regulation
AI Regulation · 1 support
Joined a bipartisan coalition of 47 state attorneys general in letters pressing major search engines and payment platforms to curb the creation, distribution and monetisation of computer-generated deepfake nonconsensual intimate imagery.
August 27, 2025Supports AI Regulation
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Track record — Healthcare Affordability
Healthcare Affordability · 1 support
Joined 50 states and territories in $49.1 million in settlements with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and Apotex resolving allegations of long-running conspiracies to inflate generic prescription drug prices and restrain trade.
October 31, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 3 oppose
Joined 24 states in a legal challenge to the EPA tailpipe-emissions rule that set electric vehicles at roughly 70 percent of new passenger and light-duty vehicle sales within a decade.
April 18, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Filed suit with 23 other states against the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeking to vacate the 2023 Waters of the United States rule, arguing it swept Alaska's permafrost regions and forested wetlands into federal permitting control.
February 16, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
As Alaska attorney general, called the EPA decision blocking the Pebble Mine legally indefensible and opposed the federal veto of the proposed Bristol Bay mining project.
February 1, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: apnews.com · researched July 2, 2026
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 1 support
Joined a bipartisan coalition of 47 state attorneys general in letters pressing major search engines and payment platforms to curb the creation, distribution and monetisation of computer-generated deepfake nonconsensual intimate imagery.
August 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Track record — Gun Control
Gun Control · 3 oppose
Joined 27 other states in a U.S. Supreme Court brief challenging Illinois' ban on AR-15 rifles and 30-round magazines, calling the Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the ban absurd.
March 19, 2024Opposes Gun Control
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Joined a 24-state coalition that sued U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to block the federal final rule reclassifying firearms fitted with stabilizing pistol braces.
February 14, 2023Opposes Gun Control
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Joined 26 other states in an amicus brief in NY State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down New York's concealed-carry licensing restrictions as a Second Amendment violation.
July 20, 2021Opposes Gun Control
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Track record — Personal Income Tax Reduction
Personal Income Tax Reduction · 1 support
Joined a 13-state bipartisan coalition that sued the U.S. Treasury Department over the American Rescue Plan Act provision restricting states from lowering their own taxes, arguing the provision seized state taxing authority.
April 1, 2021Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Track record — Data Privacy
Data Privacy · 2 support
Announced an Alaska-specific settlement with TTAM, the nonprofit acquiring 23andMe's assets in bankruptcy, guaranteeing that only Alaskans who affirmatively consented would have their genetic data shared or biobanked, and alerting customers to their deletion rights.
June 30, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Announced a 50-attorney-general settlement with Marriott International over a multi-year breach of its Starwood guest reservation database, requiring risk-based data-security reforms and a $52 million payment to the states, of which Alaska received $376,629.
October 9, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 1 support
Petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the State of Alaska to hold that deducting union dues from state employees' paychecks on a union's say-so, and continuing deductions after an employee objects, violates the First Amendment under Janus.
August 23, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Track record — Corporate Accountability
Corporate Accountability · 6 support
Reached a $700 million nationwide settlement with Johnson & Johnson alongside 42 other attorneys general over the marketing of talc-containing baby powder and body powder, including the failure to warn of possible asbestos content and ovarian-cancer risk.
June 12, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Announced a $350 million national settlement with marketing firm Publicis Health over its role in promoting prescription opioids for Purdue Pharma, bringing more than $780,000 to Alaska for opioid-crisis response.
February 1, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Enrolled Alaska in a nationwide Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force of 50 attorneys general that issued 20 civil investigative demands to gateway providers carrying the bulk of foreign robocall traffic into the United States.
August 2, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Filed a state lawsuit against seven corporations and eight individuals who ran a timeshare exit scheme, alleging they collected upfront payments often exceeding $10,000 from elderly Alaskan consumers and then never got them out of their timeshare contracts.
June 28, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Secured $437,690.65 for more than 14,000 Alaskans from Intuit Inc., owner of TurboTax, as Alaska's share of a 50-state $141 million restitution agreement over the deceptive 'free, free, free' tax-filing advertising campaign.
May 4, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Joined a coalition of 37 attorneys general that filed the Utah v. Google antitrust lawsuit in California, alleging Google used its dominance over the Play Store and Google Billing to restrict competition and raise app prices.
July 9, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Track record — General
General · 6 records
Resigned as Alaska Attorney General, with Governor Dunleavy accepting the resignation effective August 29, 2025, closing a tenure begun in 2021 that made him the third longest-serving attorney general since Alaska statehood.
August 21, 2025
Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Published a signed newspaper column explaining the State of Alaska's separation-of-powers challenge to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services final rule issued under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, stating that the suit did not seek to eliminate Section 504 protections.
March 4, 2025
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Assumed the chairmanship of the Attorney General Alliance, the bipartisan nonprofit whose membership spans 51 U.S. states and territories, and set a Chair's Initiative on cyber threats titled 'Cyber Awareness: Addressing Digital Threats at Home and Abroad'.
January 14, 2025
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Told a news conference that outside counsel had found he had no conflict of interest, and resumed full participation in the state's appeal of a ruling striking down correspondence-school allotments for private-school tuition, after having previously recused himself from that subject.
April 18, 2024
Source: alaskasnewssource.com · researched July 31, 2026
Stepped aside from all Alaska Department of Law work on correspondence school allotments because his wife had publicly argued for them, and handed the legal review to Deputy Attorney General Cori Mills.
June 6, 2022
Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Was appointed Attorney General of Alaska by Governor Mike Dunleavy, after joining the Alaska Department of Law in 2018 as Deputy Attorney General in charge of the civil division.
January 29, 2021
Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026
Past race Taylor, Treg ran in:
- Governor / Lieutenant Governor · August 18, 2026 · Alaska
Profile last researched July 2, 2026.