Opinion

AG McKenna has the independent authority to protect constitutional rights
03/26/2010: ATTORNEY General Rob McKenna has joined with a dozen other state attorneys general in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health-care bill enacted by Congress and signed by...

AG Rob McKenna has a case to challenge the health-care law's individual mandate
03/26/2010: THE politically orchestrated hiss at Rob McKenna has not been convincing. Washington's attorney general has the clear authority to argue that the new health-insurance law violates the Constitution, and to sign on to a...

Health reform needs the McKenna lawsuit
03/25/2010: Health care reform has been grilled in the flames of partisan passion since it came out of the freezer. Now state Attorney General Rob McKenna has jumped into the fire. By joining other state attorneys general in...

St. Pete Times: Making health care history
03/23/2010: FROM TRUMAN TO NIXON TO CLINTON, presidents have tried and failed to provide affordable and accessible health care for all Americans. So the legislation President Barack Obama will sign into law today is indeed...

Washington Times: Now comes November
03/23/2010: Now the real fun begins. President Obama and his Democratic legion, frightened with good cause, want the health care "reform" debate to be over and done with. "It's time to move on." Lots of luck with that. "This,"...

Newsweek: The Politics of Repealing Health Care Reform
03/22/2010: Last night, many Republicans privately think they were handed a gift: a bloody piece of prime rib to stoke unrest in their base. Between now and November, conservatives will grouse shrilly about the coming evil of...

Mandatory Insurance Is Unconstitutional
09/18/2009: Federal legislation requiring that every American have health insurance is part of all the major health-care reform plans now being considered in Washington. Such a mandate, however, would expand the federal...