The two men, Doug Dubitsky and Craig Fishbein, are Republican members of the state General Assembly. That arrangement has brought criticism from some Democrats, but ethics officials who have reviewed it say it doesn't violate state laws.
HARTFORD, Conn. — Since the coronavirus pandemic hit, a pair of politically conservative lawyers has become the go-to team for groups seeking to sue Connecticut over the school mask mandate, restrictions on bars and restaurants, and other aspects of the governor's emergency executive orders.
Dubitsky’s private and public roles appeared to overlap last month when a woman testifying before the legislature’s Conservative Caucus accused him of chastising her because she and fellow parents didn’t “come up with $100,000” to hire his law firm to challenge a vaccination mandate for University of Connecticut students.
The two men, who've argued from the House floor about some of the same issues they're suing over, have had some mostly procedural and technical victories in the roughly half dozen lawsuits they filed against the state and some municipalities. But ultimately they haven't overruled the authority of Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, to issue executive orders during a public health emergency.
“There are guardrails already in place,” he said. However, if the legislature decides one day to become a full-time body, Lewandowski said, “That obviously changes things.”
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