OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The scope of Attorney General Rob McKenna’s power to independently sue — or to refuse to sue — is at the heart of two lawsuits before the state Supreme Court this week.
McKenna, one of the most prominent Republicans in the state and a likely GOP candidate for governor in 2012, angered Democrats by signing onto a multistate challenge to the national health care reform law.
His move also prompted the city of Seattle to sue. The state Supreme Courts hears arguments in that case on Thursday. It also will hear a different issue raised by the state’s public lands commissioner — whether McKenna can refuse to continue suing when a state agency wants him to.
