Article snippet: Photo Luther Strange, center, with Gov. Robert J. Bentley of Alabama, in Washington this month. The governor chose Mr. Strange to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, President Trump’s new attorney general. Credit J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. — When Luther Strange ran for attorney general in this scandal-weary state in 2010, he appeared in an advertisement that spoke darkly of the Alabama capital’s “corruption, grand jury investigations, insider deals, abusing the public trust.”Mr. Strange won that year’s general election easily, and then another one in 2014. But since ascending to the United States Senate this month, he has found his popularity threatened and his fellow Republicans troubled, largely because he accepted the appointment of Gov. Robert J. Bentley, a subject of an active investigation that the new senator spent months overseeing.A startling number of people in and around the State House openly suspect, but lack evidence to prove, that part of Mr. Bentley’s reason for appointing Mr. Strange to the Senate was to try to undermine the inquiry.Beyond clouding Mr. Strange’s early days in the Senate, the appointment to fill the seat of Jeff Sessions, President Trump’s new attorney general, has exacerbated the controversy that has publicly swirled around Mr. Bentley for almost a year. The maze of scandal — featuring sexually explicit conversations and the sudden firing of a top l... Link to the full article to read more