This interesting article describes the progress of the trial over whether Connecticut’s Secretary of State, Susan Bysiewicz, satisfies a statute that requires candidates for Attorney General to have engaged in the “active practice of law” for the past ten years. The case is likely to depend on the extent to which Bysiewicz has drafted legal opinions, or participated in the drafting of legal opinions, while she has served as Secretary of State.
I am proud to say that the state of South Carolina places no qualifications on candidates other than residency and age except for Sheriff. The Green Party nominee for Attorney General in the Palmetto State will be Leslie Minerd. A non-lawyer, Minerd is a small business woman, operating the Hip Wa Zee antique clothing store in the Five Points section of Columbia for better than a decade. Those who believe that only attorneys can tell justice from injustice have never seen a liar…er…lawyer, at work.
active = 24/7 ???
i.e. one more VAGUE blatantly UN-constitutional law.