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The New Number Six

Our new attorney general demonstrates how he got the job:

A.G. Six resists abortion subpoena
By John Hanna
The Associated Press
Published Saturday, February 16, 2008

Attorney General Stephen Six is resisting a subpoena from a Sedgwick County grand jury investigating abortion provider George Tiller.

Six asked the Kansas Supreme Court on Friday to quash the subpoena or at least temporarily block its enforcement. The grand jury demanded the records of 60 patients from Tiller's clinic in Wichita, which the attorney general's office had obtained as part of an earlier investigation.
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Attorneys for Tiller, one of the few U.S. physicians who performs late-term abortions, already have asked the Supreme Court to block three other subpoenas that the doctor received from the grand jury. One of them seeks the records of about 2,000 patients from Tiller's clinic.

The whole thing lives here, along with some background information.
What you have to remember about the Attorney General's office in Kansas is, it's about nothing but abortion. Crime, consumer protection, protecting the citizens from the depredations of local government, advice to the Legislature, everything in the office of the state's top lawyer takes a back seat to the struggle over whether Dr. George Tiller should be permitted to perform late term abortions. Phill Kline was voted out of his job for it, Paul Morrison got elected on his promise to protect the practice (but came to an ignominious end), and now the former filthy rich trial lawyer and former district judge named by the governor to protect abortion providers in Kansas has shown that he understands that that's what he was hired to do and by golly, he's going to do it.

Full post as published by West Neanderthal Drive on February 16, 2008 (boomark / email).