Rethug AG Orchestrating Fight To Invalidate Health, Energy Reform Floats Support For Birther Lawsuit

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Republican AG Orchestrating Fight To Invalidate Health, Energy Reform Floats Support For Birther Lawsuit


Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R-VA) has positioned himself as the leader of a state-based movement on the right to invalidate key progressive reforms. Announcing a lawsuit to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate carbon emissions, Cuccinelli recently filed a petition claiming that global warming is “unverifiable and doctored” science. Cuccinelli has also promised to use the state’s recently passed “state sovereignty” law — crafted with the help of health insurance lobbyists and a right-wing front group Cuccinelli claimed membership to while in the legislature — to file a lawsuit against implementing health reform in Virginia.

Now, according to audio uncovered by blogger Not Larry Sabato, Cuccinelli is floating his support for yet another fringe conservative idea: the “birther” movement. In an audio clip allegedly recorded during the transition period after his election last year, Cuccinelli is asked how he could legally challenge President Obama’s citizenship. Cuccinelli lays out the legal framework, then adds that such a suit could occur because the “speculation” that Obama is from Kenya “doesn’t seem beyond the realm of possibility”...

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/15/cuccinelli-birther/