Is the Scruggs scandal a legacy of the policies of Mike Moore, Jim Hood?

[NOTE: I originally added this as an update to the Scruggs Nation post of today, but then thought this story deserves its own post so it doesn't get lost in a post many folks have already read.] The sun never sets on the Scruggs Nation. Just when I thought my blog work for the week was done, I came across this absolutely outstanding piece in by Steve Korris in the Southeast Texas Record. Check out this excerpt: Ten years after the Supreme Court of Mississippi turned the Attorney General's office into a mint cranking out easy money for lucky lawyers, the luckiest one of all has dragged the whole state down in disgrace. Dickie Scruggs of Oxford arranged a $40,000 bribe for Lafayette County Circuit Court Judge Henry Lackey, according to an indictment from a federal grand jury. Lackey r