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Connecticut Attorney General and last year's Dance with the Stars winner, Sir Richard Blumenthal was awarded the prestigious Purple Heart with Green Clovers and Blue Diamonds. Blumenthal won the award during combat maneuvers years ago against Leprechauns. Often called, "The Forgotten War," Blumenthal and thousands of other delusional politicians were caught up in a overseas contingency operation against the Wee People. "I left a lot of fine men--brothers--back there on those faire fields," Blumenthal said. "I don't think I ever came back. At least a part of me is back there. Could you cue up that Billy Joel song. What...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal is defending himself against a report he misstated his military service in Vietnam. Blumenthal's campaign on Monday night called a report on the New York Times website, which includes video of him at a 2008 event saying he had served "in Vietnam," an "outrageous distortion" on his record.

MIAMI, April 7 (Reuters) - Five more U.S. states are joining a Florida-led group of states in a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, Florida's attorney general said on Wednesday. The joint lawsuit led by Florida and now grouping 18 states was filed on March 23 by mostly Republican attorney generals. It claims the sweeping reform of the $2.5 trillion U.S.healthcare system, pushed through by Democrats in the U.S. Congress after months of bitter partisan fighting, violates state-government rights in the U.S. Constitution and will force massive new spending on hard-pressed state governments.

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson has rejected a request from Gov. Tim Pawlenty to sue over the new federal health care law. Instead, Swanson said Monday she will file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the federal government in a lawsuit filed by 13 state attorneys general. The Democratic attorney general sent the Republican governor a letter saying a lawsuit isn't warranted because health care fits squarely within the federal government's authority to regulate interstate commerce.

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell is back in the national spotlight for the second time this year, capturing headlines across the nation. Caldwell, a Democrat, is garnering his latest bevy of headlines over his decision to join a group of Republicans in suing the federal government over elements of the national health care overhaul signed into law last week.

VIRGINIA PUNDIT: A Civil War over health care?By Steve Vaughan Modified: Saturday, April 03, 2010 March 29,2010 A Civil War over health care? President Obama signed the health care legislation he’d fought so hard for into law last week. It was a bit of a disappointment if you believe, as I do, that affordable health care is a basic right that should be available to everyone, as it is in the rest of the civilized world. Because this bill doesn’t really do it. It does make some advances over our present system. It limits insurance companies’ ability to deny coverage...

Kansas Attorney General Steve Six said he won’t sue Washington to challenge the federal health care reform law. “Based on that extensive analysis, I do not believe that Kansas can successfully challenge the law,” Six, a Democrat, said in a statement released Friday. “Our review did not reveal any constitutional defects, and thus it would not be legally or fiscally responsible to pursue this litigation.” U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, a Topeka Republican, publicly urged Six to file suit earlier this month; she was later joined by U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt and numerous state lawmakers. Now the question is whether some...

TOPEKA | Kansas' Democratic attorney general says he won't join legal challenges by other states to the new federal health care law. Attorney General Steve Six said Friday that his office's review of the law found no constitutional defects

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker has angered Georgia Republicans to the point that some have called for his impeachment. Mr. Baker refuses to join other state attorneys general filing suit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare. He's become the darling of the left by his refusal to file suit. Based on praise by the liberal media, you'd think General Baker was the model of fiscal responsibility and restraint on judicial activism. That bastion of fiscal responsibility, The New York Times writes, that Mr. Baker "has rejected such lawsuits as ‘frivolous' and ‘a waste of taxpayer money.'" AlterNet reports on Mr. Baker's...

After learning of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's lawsuit to prevent Virginians from getting the health care reform that they need, we here at the Democratic Party of Virginia have been overwhelmed at the response from across the Commonwealth. In less than a week, over 10,000 people have signed our petition calling on Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to stop using taxpayer dollars and resources on a personal, political fight. Those who have signed know what everyone, including national papers like the New York Times, is now beginning to understand - that this lawsuit has no merit. Yesterday, the New York Times...

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s lawsuit against Obamacare is right on the merits. Nothing in the Constitution grants Congress the power to force Americans to purchase a particular consumer good. Although the Founders made it quite clear that the federal government lacked the power to do anything not specifically authorized, many Americans today assume Washington has the power to do whatever is not specifically forbidden. So most advocates of Obamacare do not even bother trying to justify the individual mandate on constitutional grounds. If challenged, their response resembles Nancy Pelosi’s huffy evasion: “Are you serious?” The few who do try...

http://hrblogs.typepad.com/the_shad_plank/2010/03/cuccinelli-expects-a-decision-by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told Peninsula business leaders that he expects a judicial ruling on his lawsuit against federal health care reform legislation by late this summer. "This case will go quickly," Cuccinelli told about 100 people over a breakfast set up by the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce. Cuccinelli noted that the complaint is filed in the U.S. District's court Eastern District - which has earned the moniker "the rocket docket" because of the rapid pace of legal wrangling. Cuccinelli acknowledged that he expects his lawsuit to move up the legal chain of command through the 4th...

WILLIAM M. McCOOL, CLERK OF COURT Case 3:10-cv-00091-RV-EMT Document 4 Filed 03/29/10 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PENSACOLA DIVISION STATE OF FLORIDA, ET AL. VS UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al. NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that a proceeding in this case has been set for the place, date, and time set forth below: Place: United States Courthouse One North Palafox Street Pensacola, Florida 32502-5658 Room No: Date: Time: Courtroom Five April 14, 2010 9:00 a.m. CASE NO. 3:10cv91/RV/EMT Type of Proceeding: Rule 16 Scheduling Conference before Senior Judge Roger Vinson...

Indiana Joins Health Care Reform Lawsuit InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report Attorney General Greg Zoeller says Indiana is joining at least 13 other states in a legal challenge to the new federal health care law. He says it is in the best interests of all to raise constitutional questions about the reform package to the United State Supreme Court. Many of Zoeller's concerns are in a 55 page report on the changes, put together at the request of U.S. Senator Richard Lugar. . . . (more) . .

Hundreds of people turned out Saturday to show their support for state Attorney General Rob McKenna and his decision to join a lawsuit with a dozen other states trying to overturn sweeping federal health care legislation.

ROANOKE - A “dramatic overreach of power.“ That’s how Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli described the health care reform bill that passed the House of Representatives Sunday night. In an interview with Washington D.C. NBC affiliate WRC on Monday, Cuccinelli laid out his justification for plans to file a lawsuit against the federal government over health care reform.

Just heard on KING5 TV that a rally to support the WA state AG, who is part of the healthcare suit, will be at 11am this morning, State Capital steps, Olympia WAMcKenna is under fire from the DiM Governor and legislature for defending the Constitution

NEWPORT NEWS - — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told Peninsula business leaders Friday that he expects a judicial ruling on his lawsuit against federal health care reform legislation by late this summer. Cuccinelli noted that the complaint is filed in the U.S. District Court's Eastern District — which has earned the moniker "the rocket docket." He also said he expects his lawsuit to move up the legal chain of command through the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and "perhaps to the Supreme Court." "This case will go quickly," Cuccinelli told about 100 people at a Virginia Peninsula Chamber of...

Cuccinelli going to court to ‘defend Virginia’. A-G to file suit in ‘Rocket Docket’ today – noon “not unreasonable” Sometime just after 11.15a.m. theAttorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, will file an unprecedented suit questioning the constitutionality of the health care reform bill passed by the House of Representatives this past Sunday.

At a press conference on Thursday morning, Democratic Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee and Al Green, both from Texas, equated the suits filed by fourteen state attorneys general, particularly that of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot, fighting the health care bill recently passed in Congress, to the suits that were filed following the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act. (all emphasis is mine) “...[with] the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act--lo and behold states' rights activists wanted to use the Commerce Clause then. Then, African Americans were second class citizens. That legislation was to...