Most sponsored law school places, offered by the big City law firms, went to white students with good degrees.
In Britain, the attorney general, Baroness Scotland, was credited with sponsoring laws to limit the hiring of illegal immigrants.
He also took a strong interest in environmental issues and children's health care, sponsoring laws that increased funding for pediatric-cancer research and that required that drugs and medical devices be proved safe and effective before being used with children.
Amanda Jicinto, a spokeswoman for Montgomery, told HuffPost that he approved two grants worth $28,000 for the Arizona Police Association to sponsor law enforcement trainings, but was unaware what those trainings would entail.
He has also sponsored welfare laws that seek to help low-income families, children and the homeless.
It is a mystery to me how the United States, which is normally so tough on competition issues, can at the same time sponsor laws that create such an advantage for failing businesses.
Representative Cindy Rosenwald, the New Hampshire legislator who sponsored the law, expressed disappointment yesterday in the ruling, which issued a permanent injunction against enforcement of the law.
That was untrue, said County Legislator Thomas J. Abinanti, who sponsored the law.
