{"id":700762,"date":"2010-03-25T12:33:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80468"},"modified":"2010-03-25T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:33:31","slug":"georgia-governor-will-appoint-%e2%80%98special-attorney-general%e2%80%99-to-sue-over-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/700762","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Governor Will Appoint \u2018Special Attorney General\u2019 to Sue Over Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, a Democrat, has refused to file<\/a> an anti-health care mandate lawsuit, and called other AGs’ decisions to do so “political gamesmanship.” Undaunted — and, of course, very concerned about the rule of law — Gov. Sonny Perdue (R-Ga.) is appointing<\/a> a “special attorney general” to sue the federal government anyway.<\/p>\n

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The governor said the state constitution gives him the leeway to appoint a special attorney general if the elected attorney general fails to carry out the wishes of the governor… When asked if Baker broke the law by refusing to carry out his instructions to initiate a lawsuit, the governor said,\u00a0 \u201cI think the (state) Constitution is is clear. I think the people of Georgia can make their own determination about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>Perdue’s referring to the voters, I think — Baker is running for governor — but that’s really something to accuse your attorney general of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, a Democrat, has refused to file an anti-health care mandate lawsuit, and called other AGs’ decisions to do so “political gamesmanship.” Undaunted — and, of course, very concerned about the rule of law — Gov. Sonny Perdue (R-Ga.) is appointing a “special attorney general” to sue the federal government anyway. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WiC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}