By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Capitol Times
Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion got its first day in court as attorneys argued over whether 36 Republican lawmakers who opposed the plan have the right to sue over it.
The Goldwater Institute, which is representing the lawmakers, argued that each of the legislators had suffered an individual injury because their votes were nullified when their colleagues ignored Proposition 108, a 1992 amendment to the Arizona Constitution that requires a two-thirds vote to pass a tax increase.
The governor’s attorney, meanwhile, argued that the only people who have the right to sue are the hospitals that will pay a disputed assessment that will pay for the expansion.
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