According to a spokesman for Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, Virginia will file a legal petition to the constitutionality of the Democratic healthcare reform bill, if Congress approves it.

The announcement came two days before President Obama scheduled to visit Fairfax County to hold a final rally in support of the healthcare reform bill before the congressional vote. The week before, Virginia became the first state to pass a bill declaring it illegal for the government to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a key component of the bills under consideration on Capitol Hill.

Also, Cuccinelli wrote a letter to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, warning that use of a parliamentary procedure known as "deem and pass," in which the House would approve the Senate's healthcare reform bill without a direct vote, would "expose any act which may pass to yet another constitutional challenge."  

It is not clear whether Cuccinelli and other state attorneys general would sue the healthcare reform and whether such suits would find favor with the federal courts.

Source : The Washington Post

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