Looks like some AG ain't falling for the banana in the tailpipe trick about suing the Federal Government over this health care bill. He received a request from our Republican Governor to file a lawsuit on the behalf of Georgia against President Obama and the Federal Government. Our Georgia Attorney General is a Black man who happens to be democrat and a Obama supporter who is running for Governor next year here in our red southern state. Now keep in mind what this man has to fight against. The majority of state legislators here are southern white republican men who have for the past 24 hours practically threatening him to file suit. He is getting threats from these racist pigs here in Georgia. One republican congressman has given out his address/ph to folks here to bombard him with phone calls. He is stuck between a rock and hard place because he is running for governor and he needs not only black votes but white votes in order to even he win the primary and the general. After all this, he still told the governor to go jump of a cliff. The Govenor now claims he will go it alone to file the lawsuit. My advice to him....Go for it!! I hope you make a bigger fool of yourself.
Attorney General Thurbert Baker's own words...
We’re not interested in political gamesmanship in the office of the attorney general. We’re not interested in making political points. The role of the attorney general is to follow the law, and where we feel there have been violations, we need to address it... There’s a little thing called the supremacy clause. Federal law supercedes state law. And so I’m very interested in knowing, at least from those who think there’s a basis is, at least what they think the basis is.
The full letter to Sonny Perdue here: http://blogs.ajc.com/...
Thurbert Baker’s answer to Sonny Perdue: Health care lawsuit a waste of money
Attorney General Thurbert Baker, a Democratic candidate for governor, has rejected Gov. Sonny Perdue’s demand that he join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health care reform law.
Read the entire thing here.
But this is the meat:
Based upon my understanding of the current Act, I am unaware of any constitutional infirmities and do not think it would be prudent, legally or fiscally, to pursue such litigation. I must therefore respectfully decline your request.
While I understand that the new law is the subject of ongoing debate here in Georgia and around the nation, I do not believe that Georgia has a viable legal claim against the United States. Considering our state’s current severe budgetary crisis, with vital services like education and law enforcement being cut deeply, I cannot justify a decision to initiate expensive and time-consuming litigation that I believe has no legal merit.
In short, this litigation is likely to fail and will consume significant amounts of taxpayers’ hard-earned money in the process
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http://www.legalnewsline.com/...
Ga. AG thinks health care challenge will fail
BY JOHN O'BRIEN
Baker
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker won't join a lawsuit challenging federal health care reform legislation, claiming the challenges of other AGs have "no legal merit."
Baker made his stance known Wednesday in a letter to Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican who had asked Baker to initiate the litigation. Baker, a Democrat, is running for governor this year.
"While I understand that the new law is the subject of ongoing debate here in Georgia and around the nation, I do not believe that Georgia has a viable legal claim against the United States," Baker wrote.
Most of these AG in these states know damn well they don't have a case and this is pure politics. They need some lie or some delusional promise to their base that they can sue the government over this. Its a complete waste of time and money and I hope more AG don't fall for this trap. They don't have a case and it will eventually fail.