WSJ Blasts AGs

Just like our post yesterday, the WSJ rails against the sleaze AGs we have in place. Nothing new here, but still worth a read:

Take one part ego, one part ambition and one part lawyer, mix it with an office that has few restraints on power, and you'll end up with the worst sort of state attorney general. Take Dan Greear, and you'll have a man at the front of a nascent electoral movement to change the formula.

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His quest has become a case study in the opportunities, and pitfalls, of an upstart reformer challenging an incumbent attorney general who, like New York's
Eliot Spitzer, has cemented his position through populism and political patronage.
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Mr. McGraw, in more than 14 years as West Virginia's attorney general, has been a pioneer in the practice of filing questionable lawsuits against big companies, secretly doling out the legal work to outside trial lawyer friends who reap millions in fees. Those lawyers then turn around and donate heavily to Mr. McGraw's re-election.