Key Points • Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr sues Republican primary opponent. • Lawsuit involves campaign finance issue and leadership committee. • Jones’ financial disclosure showed $700,000 in liquid assets last year.

Chris Carr, Georgia’s attorney general and a candidate for governor, is suing his Republican primary opponent in federal court over a campaign finance issue.

The lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, filed Thursday, follows a complaint by Carr against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones that was dismissed by the State Ethics Commission last month.

In the new case and the old, the complaints involve Jones’ use of a “leadership committee” to lend his campaign $10 million.

Jones started his WBJ Leadership Committee under a 2021 state law that allows him to collect unlimite

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