Bysiewicz Sues Self and Wins.

Secretary of the State and former insurance company lawyer Susan Bysiewicz won a Superior Court ruling declaring her 11 years visiting Democratic Town committees and issuing proclamations the active practice of law.  Professor Michael Sheldon probably would have scoffed at that definition of the active practice of law when he ran with memorable vigor the criminal law clinic at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Judges, however, are not professors.

Not a good day for Bysiewicz in-law, former Governor John Rowland defender Ross Garber, who was said to be nurturing visions of seizing the Republican nomination for attorney general this month should Sheldon’s ruling have gone wrong for sis by marriage Bysiewicz.  The Glastonbury Republican’s ambitions wilt when they stray onto the trail pursued by the Middletown Democrat, who is the Garber’s wife’s sister.

Still waiting for resolution: Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s investigation of Bysiewicz’s political database in her public office.  In the public interest, Bysiewicz ought to insist that any interview of her by Blumenthal’s office be memorialized in a video recording and made available to the public.  Bysiewicz under oath trying to explain answer simple questions is a performance you can’t find anywhere else.

To recap:  Bysiewicz sued herself and won.  An attorney general sues or is sued by others.  Those cases are always more complicated, for example, than Bysiewicz’s sole turn in a courtroom: a small claims hearing representing herself.