As you may know, Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) is now threatening to invoke the Tenth Amendment in order to keep his home state of Minnesota out of any health care reform package that gets passed, and raising the possibility of governors filing lawsuits against it. As it turns out, this is not the first time that a Minnesota governor has been embroiled in a battle of states’ rights with the federal government — and the last time it happened, it involved political action from the left.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=138297