Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli turned on nearly all his boilerplate bromides in accepting the "Defender of the Constitution" Award today at the Conservative Political Action Conference. He touched on most of his signature issues, but not the rats. Rats. more ›

Last week, D.C. and Virginia officials gathered to talk about a vital cross-border issue: rats. No, really. more ›

Virginia Attorney General Ken "The Cooch" Cuccinelli isn't one to back down, and his contention that a D.C. law regulating the capture and disposal of critters and vermin has led the city to dispose of its rats in the commonwealth has provoked a Maryland legislator into proposing a law that would forbid the practice. more ›

Thanks to Ken Cuccinelli and Rush Limbaugh, there are a lot of people out there who seem to be convinced that D.C. is smuggling its rats into Virginia. more ›

D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan announced today that the District was adding its name to a brief submitted by 10 states and the Virgin Islands backing the constitutionality of President Obama's healthcare reform law. more ›

Virginia Attorney General Ken "The Cooch" Cuccinelli has uncovered a devious plan by District officials to ship the city's rats to the commonwealth. Or has he? more ›

Good morning, Washington. Freedom Plaza may be a little crowded this morning as antiwar and anti-Wall Street protesters make room for Mayor Vince Gray to kick off the D.C. Full Democracy Freedom Rally and March, planned to coincide with this weekend’s official dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial. more ›

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's quest to strike down Barack Obama's health care reform law has flatlined -- today, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a case made by the Cooch arguing that the federal law violated Virginia statutes. more ›

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is no stranger to criticism from this side of the Potomac. But it appears as if voters in the Old Dominion think he'd be a fine candidate for the Republican party to field in the state's next gubernatorial election. more ›

The Post reports that the Supreme Court has decided that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli isn't allowed to cut the judicial queue -- The Cooch will have to address his challenge to the Obama administration's health care reform law in his own state before bringing it to the high court. more ›

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has sure done some interesting things over the years. Cracking down on Craigslist personals? Sure. Covering up the breast on Virginia's state seal? Yup. Alluding that President Barack Obama might not be an American citizen and suggesting that Social Security numbers are being used to track us? Oh, you better believe it. But here's another opinion to add to The Cooch's list: he says you're able bring your gun with you to church. more ›

A win for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in his quest to strike down Barack Obama's health care reform law -- U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled in Richmond this afternoon that the law's requirement for Americans to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. more ›

The District's Attorney General, Peter Nickles, has drawn plenty of criticism for not being independent enough from the man who appointed him, Mayor Adrian Fenty. But just across the river, Virginians have had to deal with Ken Cuccinelli, the commonwealth's elected attorney general whose aggressive stances against everything from climate change to health care reform to anti-gay discrimination to the state seal have made even Republican Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell slightly uncomfortable.

Just two weeks from now, D.C. voters will be asked to decide whether they're rather maintain the status quo or elect the city's top law enforcement official starting in 2014. In essence, they'll have to decide if they'd rather have a Nickles or a Cuccinelli. more ›

Virginia Attorney General Ken "The Cooch" Cuccinelli has been a pretty busy guy of late. But when he isn't circumventing the General Assembly to push through tighter regulations on abortion clinics or actually rendering a decision regarding where people can display religious displays, he's lending his name to an effort to shut down the sordid corners of Craigslist. more ›

Rise and shine, Washington! It's been nearly five years since I've done a Morning Roundup, the anchor DCist news post I first crafted back in October 2004 as a way to get through a lot of news in a hurry so I could get to work on time. My name is Michael Grass and I co-founded this blog with Rob Goodspeed, where we built the core team that developed the DCist community of contributors and readers. Now I'm back today and tomorrow to guest edit in Sommer's absence. I've been also been subbing as Loose Lips Daily in recent days for the City Paper. I've been everywhere lately! more ›

I ask you, intelligent, well-read DCist reader: does this image of a toga-clad woman, representing the Roman ideal of Virtus, as she breaks the bonds of cruel monarchy, offend you? No, not for the weird way her toes are drawn. You know -- because of the boob. Surely not, right? more ›

All this comes in the context of Cuccinelli's recent push to remove language dealing with sexual orientation from state university anti-discrimination policies. more ›