Editorials increasingly upset with AG Hood

Legal Newsline, 1/22/8

On Nov. 6, state Attorney General Jim Hood was the most popular man in Mississippi.

The Democrat won re-election that day over Al Hopkins, earning 60 percent of the vote while receiving the most votes of any candidate running for a statewide office. More than 440,000 Mississippians wanted Hood back for a second term, and he became the only Democrat to win in any of the eight statewide races.

More than two months later, however, the media seems fed up with his apparent unwillingness to prosecute those charged by the federal government in two separate alleged judicial bribery schemes that took place in state courts.