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Candidate for Va. AG wants to take politics out of the office. Sound familiar?
Candidate for Va. AG wants to take politics out of the office. Sound familiar?
By Laura Vozzella July 4 at 5:05 PM
RICHMOND — John Adams, the prominent Richmond lawyer who wants to be Virginia’s next attorney general, is no fan of the Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the country. ... “Totally made up, totally made up,” he told a Tea Party gathering in Virginia Beach last year. “Not in the constitution anywhere.”
But the Republican also told the crowd they had to live with the high court’s ruling unless one of two things happens. Either Virginia secedes from the union, something that did not work out so well 150 years ago. Or the court gets a big makeover.
“I’m an optimist,” he said. “I clerked for Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court. You give me four more Clarence Thomases, we’re good. OK? I’m not kidding. We’re good. Because they will fix that court in a minute.”
Ahead of Virginia’s November election — the nation’s only attorney general’s contest in 2017 —the Republican Attorneys General Association voted early this year to scrap a long-standing “gentlemen’s agreement” with its Democratic counterpart to stay out of contests with an incumbent. RAGA’s vote to abandon that “incumbency rule” was first reported by Reuters. ... Since then, RAGA has poured $250,000 into Adams’s campaign and the Democratic Attorneys General Association has given $500,000 to Herring’s.
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Laura Vozzella covers Virginia politics for The Washington Post. Follow @LVozzella
By Laura Vozzella July 4 at 5:05 PM
RICHMOND — John Adams, the prominent Richmond lawyer who wants to be Virginia’s next attorney general, is no fan of the Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the country. ... “Totally made up, totally made up,” he told a Tea Party gathering in Virginia Beach last year. “Not in the constitution anywhere.”
But the Republican also told the crowd they had to live with the high court’s ruling unless one of two things happens. Either Virginia secedes from the union, something that did not work out so well 150 years ago. Or the court gets a big makeover.
“I’m an optimist,” he said. “I clerked for Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court. You give me four more Clarence Thomases, we’re good. OK? I’m not kidding. We’re good. Because they will fix that court in a minute.”
Ahead of Virginia’s November election — the nation’s only attorney general’s contest in 2017 —the Republican Attorneys General Association voted early this year to scrap a long-standing “gentlemen’s agreement” with its Democratic counterpart to stay out of contests with an incumbent. RAGA’s vote to abandon that “incumbency rule” was first reported by Reuters. ... Since then, RAGA has poured $250,000 into Adams’s campaign and the Democratic Attorneys General Association has given $500,000 to Herring’s.
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Laura Vozzella covers Virginia politics for The Washington Post. Follow @LVozzella
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