Two separate petitions have been uploaded to support and to object to senior lawyer Tommy Thomas’ nomination as the next attorney-general.

As at 12.30am today, the petition objecting to the nomination of Thomas had garnered nearly 14,000 signatures out of its goal of 1,000.

However, the wording of seven out of eight paragraphs of the petition appears to have been copied from a Malay-language report published by The Malaysian Insight last Saturday on the standoff between the government and the palace over Thomas’ nomination...