The Kansas House is considering passing a resolution that would require that state's attorney general, Steve Six, to join the 13 states that have filed lawsuits over the new health-care reform bill.
Apparently, either chamber of Kansas' Congress can force the AG to take action, and the resolution doesn't need to pass in the second chamber. There was similar pressure from Republican lawmakers in Ohio to join the suit, and Ohio's attorney general, Richard Cordray explained why he wouldn't do it: It's unlikely to succeed.
So forcing them to take up the issue would violate another rule that attorneys general follow, and that's not wasting the state's money either defending or pursuing lawsuits they can't win. But if Kansas wants to spend money it doesn't have, so be it.
-- Monica Potts
