Alabama: which way will the AG jump on the GOP's suit?
AP reports: Democrats and Republicans are watching to see which side Republican Attorney General Troy King takes in a Republican-inspired lawsuit seeking to redesign the state's legislative districts.
Democrat Lowell Barron, president pro tem of the Senate, said he expects King to defend Alabama's redistricting plan like his predecessor, Republican Bill Pryor, did.
Republican District Attorney David Whetstone of Baldwin County said King should side with the plaintiffs because, in his view, fast-growing, Republican-leaning areas of the state — like Baldwin County — are shortchanged by the current legislative districts.
King said Friday he had not yet received the suit, which is against state and county officials.
"It's premature to start speculating about what we'll do," he said. "I want to see what the merits of the claims are." -- AG King weighing legislative suit as both sides watch