McEachin to Introduce Legislation to restrict similar "witch-hunts"

TPMMuckraker
May 11, 2010

The wrangling over Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's investigation of a climate scientist continues...

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Also yesterday, Democratic legislator Donald McEachin said he planned to introduce a bill that would bar the state's AG from issuing subpoenas unless he has filed a lawsuit. McEachin said the bill was intended to ensure that the AG could not issue subpoenas without a judge having the ability to throw out the underlying case as frivolous.

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Other scientists -- including climate change skeptics -- have slammed Cuccinelli's probe as a "witch hunt." The Virginia ACLU and a national professor's group have urged UVA not to cooperate with the subpoena.

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