From Courant.com:

In a sharp reversal, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz initiated a lawsuit Thursday in hopes a judge will rule that she meets Connecticut’s legal requirements to run for attorney general — or will throw out those legal requirements as unconstitutional.

On Feb. 2, Bysiewicz said she wouldn’t seek a judge’s “declaratory ruling” on the question of whether she meets the century-old statutory requirement that the state’s attorney general have accumulated 10 years in “active practice” as a lawyer in Connecticut.

But questions have persisted about whether Bysiewicz’s 11 years as secretary of the state should count in addition to her six previous years of private law practice. And on Thursday, Bysiewicz acknowledged that there was too much uncertainty in the minds of potential delegates for the Democratic Party’s May nominating convention for attorney general.

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