From The Seattle Times:

Gov. Chris Gregoire is joining three fellow Democratic governors in asking a federal judge to consider their opposition to a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the nation’s new health-care law.

The lawsuit filed in March by 13 state attorneys-general challenges the new law’s requirements that everyone purchase health insurance and that states expand Medicaid coverage for the poor.

The decision of Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna to join the lawsuit infuriated Gregoire and other Democratic leaders, who argued Republican McKenna’s position doesn’t represent the state’s interests.

Democratic governors Bill Ritter of Colorado, Jennifer Granholm of Michigan and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania found themselves in similar arguments with Republican attorneys-general in their states.

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