Idaho 1st to sign law tied to overhaul


March 18, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho

Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health-care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.

Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states.

Constitutional law experts say the movement is mostly symbolic because federal laws supersede those of the states.

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