LINCOLN - Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson won't seek reelection in 2022, according to a note he wrote to family and friends that was obtained by the Journal Star this past weekend.

Peterson, a Republican who previously was assistant state attorney general, was first elected in 2014 and ran uncontested in 2018.

As the Attorney General, Peterson made a name for himself by opposing several Obama administration policies.

Texas, Kansas, and Louisiana first filed a federal lawsuit in October of 2015 that combatted a section of the Affordable Care Act that required states to pay a portion of the Health Insurance Providers Fee to help fund the health insurance. Nebraska and Wisconsin followed later.

Nebraska would again join several states in suing the federal government when they sought to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2018. This program prevented undocumented, immigrant children from being deported.

Peterson joined other states in a lawsuit more recently that examined the integrity of the 2020 presidential electoral process. He has also been very active in his opposition to vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last month, Peterson joined a bipartisan group of state attorney generals investigation of Instagram regarding their efforts to focus their marketing on children and young adults.

"In the last seven years it has been a unique privilege to serve our state as Attorney General," Peterson said in the note. "I have had the opportunity to work with some great people on issues that truly matter."

Sen. Mike Hilgers of Lincoln, who is the speaker of the Legislature, is among the likely Republican candidates to run for attorney general in 2022. Hilgers ran unsuccessfully in the 2014 attorney general Republican primary.

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