From Projo.com:

Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch says he will not join the 20 attorneys general who are challenging the constitutionality of the new federal health-care law.

Such a suit would waste tax dollars on “a political stunt” that has “no chance of success,” Lynch said in a statement.

The attorney general, a candidate for governor, announced his position Monday in response to a letter from Governor Carcieri that called on him to challenge the constitutionality of the legislation, which was signed into law by President Obama on March 23.

In his letter, Carcieri called the law an “unnecessary and probably unconstitutional intrusion of the federal government into the lives of Rhode Islanders.” The governor objects to provisions in the law that require individuals to purchase health insurance and the state to establish an insurance exchange.

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