Virginia's Activist Attorney-General: Man on a MissionBy Alex Altman Monday, Dec. 27, 2010
It takes a canny politician to make his name picking fights that are always someone else's fault. And Ken Cuccinelli is not even a politician, entirely.
Since taking office in January, Virginia's new attorney general has sued the EPA over its plan to regulate greenhouse gases, opined that Virginia can regulate first-trimester abortion facilities as it can hospitals, advised that the state's public colleges lack authority to bar discrimination against gays and lesbians, tweaked the state seal to cover the bare breast of the Roman goddess Virtus and subpoenaed the University of Virginia to probe for evidence that a former professor manipulated climate-science research.