Associated Press
Athens Banner-Herald
March 25, 2010
ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue is butting heads with the state's top lawyer, threatening to "go it alone" and sue the federal government over a new federal health care law.
Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Wednesday declined the Republican's governor request to sue over the health care law, arguing the state doesn't have a "a viable legal claim."
"I cannot in good conscience file a lawsuit against the United States that I believe has little or no chance of success and will undoubtedly consume significant state resources in a time of severe budgetary crisis," Baker wrote in a letter to the governor. Baker is seeking the Democratic nomination to succeed Perdue.
But Perdue spokesman Bert Brantley fired back that the state could "go it alone" with an outside counsel.
Late Wednesday, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Senate Republicans urged Perdue to file a lawsuit, calling the federal health law "an unprecedented attack on our citizens' liberty and our state's sovereignty."
Brantley said several lawyers have volunteered to handle the state's lawsuit pro bono - removing the concerns about cost for the cash-strapped state.
Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, March 25, 2010
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