From the Courant.com:

In lightning-quick fashion, the state Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a judge’s ruling that Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz is legally qualified to continue her run for attorney general.

The high court set oral arguments on the case for Tuesday, and ordered lawyers on both sides to submit briefs Friday, an extraordinarily fast schedule that suggests the court might intend to rule before the Democratic nominating convention May 21-22.

Bysiewicz’s candidacy has been clouded by debate over a state law that requires the attorney general to have engaged in the “active practice” of law in the state for at least 10 years. Bysiewicz was in private practice for less than six years, but maintains that her duties as secretary of the state for the past 11 years satisfy the legal requirement. Critics maintain that her work has been no different from that performed by her non-lawyer predecessors and does not amount to “active practice.”

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