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Everywhere one looks these days, state attorneys general seem to be transforming their offices from Solomonic dispensers of impartial law enforcement to crusading agents of special interest groups, most often the plaintiffs’ bar, whose members often finance their campaigns. Some, like Mississippi’s Jim Hood, find themselves hip-deep in controversies involving major political allies. In Hood’s case, state papers already have begun calling on him to resign even as he refuses to conduct a state investigation into tort king Dickie Scruggs. Hood says investigating Scruggs “would be like prosecuting a relative.” Hood is just one of the many state AGs who “contract out” loads of work to trial lawyers who contribute to them, with dispassionate justice being replaced by all of the profit motives that contingency-fee arrangements entail.

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