We mistakenly think of the attorney general as the ‘top cop,’ but that’s not really what the job is about

We mistakenly think of the attorney general as the ‘top cop,’ but that’s not really what the job is about

Because of what I’ll discreetly call “recent events” — better known as Jay Jones’ text messages and the unusual deal he got that allowed him to do community service for speeding at 116 mph by working for his own political action committee — the attorney general’s race has now attained more prominence in the closing days than maybe any attorney general’s race ever. While polls have consistently shown Democrat Abigail Spanberger leading the govern…