From TheDay.com:

The end is drawing near for Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz’s legal battle to establish her eligibility to serve as Connecticut’s next attorney general.

Attorneys representing Bysiewicz, the state Democratic and Republican parties and Bysiewicz’s office appeared Tuesday in Hartford Superior Court for two long sessions of argument before Judge Michael Sheldon. Sheldon will rule on the meaning of the state’s qualifying standards for attorneys general, and also whether those existing standards are constitutional.

Bysiewicz has sued the state Democratic party and her own office in an effort to prove that she meets the existing standard of legal experience for an attorney general – 10 years of active practice at the Connecticut bar. Bysiewicz argues that the combination of her four years in private practice and her work as Secretary of the State should enable her to meet that standard.

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