The Ohio Republican Party has launched a new website attacking Democrat AG candidate David Pepper for thinking “the law does not apply to him.” “Pepper wants to be the state’s attorney general but he’s shown a shocking lack of regard for even the most fundamental of targeted traffic laws,” Matt Borges, chairman of the Ohio GOP said Tuesday in an e-mail announcement of the site.

In a series of interview videos with the local ABC affiliate, Leslie Rutledge, GOP candidate for attorney general in Arkansas, explained her positions on a number of issues facing Arkansans including school prayer, medical marijuana, and gun-control legislation.

New Mexico Republican Susan Riedel spoke to The Republican Women Group of Otero County where she drew what she sees at the main contrast between her and her opponent, Democrat Hector Balderas. “I know what it is like to supervise a big office and I know what it’s like to supervise lawyers.”

Republican Adam Laxalt says he plans to sue the federal government, if elected Nevada’s next attorney general, if the sage grouse is listed as an endangered species. Laxalt says “he believes the federal government has overreached in enforcing the act and has stepped on the rights of Nevada and other states in dictating how to deal with various species,” reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The editorial board of the Journal Times in Racine County, Wisconsin joins criticism of Democratic attorney general candidate Susan Happ and her office’s handling of case involving allegations of the sexual assault of a child. The editorial reads, in part,

The facts are clear enough. Happ and her husband sold a piece of property to Reynolds under a land contract in 2009 for $180,000, which was paid off three years later.

A spokesman for Happ said the case was turned over to an assistant district attorney who made the decision to go with the plea deal.

That’s not quite good enough. Happ should have recognized the clear conflict of interest this case presented for her and her office and used a 10-foot pole to push it as far away from her jurisdiction as possible. Pushing it down to an assistant — who still reported to her — was simply not good enough.

Happ’s poorly-thought-out decision is probably not enough to warrant asking her to resign from the attorney general’s race, but it should weigh heavily on voters when they go to the polls in November.