Advocates take Maine Medicaid expansion fight with LePage to court
In doing so, they put Attorney General
The lawsuit against the
A day after it passed, the Republican governor said that he wouldn't implement it unless lawmakers fund it at a disputed cost estimate and without tax hikes or raids of
But on Monday,
"He really doesn't have any excuses any longer, but the fact of the matter is the law is the law and he needs to follow it," Merrill said.
The voter-approved law set out a specific timeframe for
Since then, advocates have contended that the state is in "clear" violation of the law, and by
LePage spokesman
On Monday,
The issue is laden with election-year politics. Mills is one of seven
LePage sued Mills over that last year, but his complaint was dismissed. State law says that Mills must sign off before a state government entity can hire outside lawyers to represent it. While that power could be used in a bid to block LePage's legal effort, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court said in 2015 that it was unaware of any time that approval has been withheld.
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