D.C.’s acting attorney general, Peter Nickles, disputed charges Monday that he is a mere “puppet” of Mayor Adrian Fenty even as a key D.C. Council member said he would not support Nickles’ appointment as permanent attorney general.

“I will not support him as the new attorney general,” at-large Councilman Phil Mendelson, chairman of the judiciary committee, said of Nickles. “In my view there have been too many mistakes, errors of judgment.”