Dear Editor,
Arizona State Senate President Warren Petersen has been a licensed attorney for about two and a half years, having been admitted to practice law by the State Bar of Arizona on December 21, 2023. He has not practiced law!
A.R.S. Section 41-191. Attorney general; qualifications; salary; assistants; fees; exceptions; outside counsel.
A. The attorney general shall have been for not less than five years immediately preceding the date of taking office a practicing attorney before the supreme court of the state. He is entitled to receive an annual salary pursuant to section 41-1904.
Warren Petersen is not qualified to be Attorney General.
Please vote for Rodney Glassman!
Rodney Glassman has been an attorney since 2007, which is when he earned his law degree from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and began practicing. His legal career features two main components: Private Practice: He has worked for nearly two decades in the private sector as a litigation attorney Meet Rodney | Rodney Glassman for Attorney General. Military Service: In 2009, he was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps Reserve, where he has prosecuted cases and risen to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel Meet Rodney. Rodney Glassman for Attorney General.
Richard Basinger
In State ex rel. Sawyer v. LaSota (1978), the Jack LaSota case, the Arizona Supreme Court held that the Legislature could not add qualifications for Attorney General beyond those contained in the Arizona Constitution. That decision invalidated the statutory five year “practicing attorney” requirement.
In State ex rel. Sawyer v. LaSota (1978), the Jack LaSota case, the Arizona Supreme Court held that the Legislature could not add qualifications for Attorney General beyond those contained in the Arizona Constitution. That decision invalidated the statutory five year “practicing attorney” requirement.
Ant lower court would most likely follow the decision of the Supreme Court where is says the State Statute is non-binding because it tries to amend the Constitution.