While I’ve talked about this some, I might as well get to a full-fledged post on this, even if it will not go into much detail. Also, enjoy this graphic courtesy of Wikipedia that explains more about the case at hand.
I have no idea why this case has become dead air considering how at least one case heard after it already has a known result. Will we not know the results until July? Is that really a good idea? But that doesn’t matter too much. What does matter is explaining the colors.
Now most of them apply to attorney generals, but when I was looking through them and noticed that one did not add up. You see, Kentucky had the color of orange, making it part of the California side of the case in favor of Obamacare. But their attorney general is a Republican. I thought that it could be a previous, Democratic attorney general still on the case, but it turns out that it is the governor of the state that did the case instead.
The orange ones that I’m considering good are Xavier Becerra of California, Phil Weiser of Colorado, William Tong of Connecticut, Kathy Jennings of Delaware, Clare E Connors of Hawaii, Kwame Raoul of Illinois, Thomas John Miller of Iowa, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, Dana Nessel of Michigan, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Aaron D Ford of Nevada, Gurbir Grewal of New Jersey, Letitia James of New York, Josh Stein of North Carolina, Ellen Rosenblum of Oregon, Peter Neronha of Rhode Island, T J Donovan of Vermont, Mark Herring of Virginia, and Bob Ferguson of Washington state. Note that Clare E Connors is officially nonpartisan and not a Democrat like the rest of them.
The green ones that I’m considering bad are Steve Marshall of Alabama, Mark Brnovich of Arizona, Leslie Rutledge of Arkansas, Ashley B Moody of Florida, Chris Carr of Georgia, Curtis Hill of Indiana, Derek Schmidt of Kansas, Jeff Landry of Louisiana, Lynn Fitch of Mississippi, Eric Schmitt of Missouri, Doug Peterson of Nebraska, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, Alan Wilson of South Carolina, Jason Ravnsborg of South Dakota, Herbert H Slatery, Ken Paxton of Texas, Sean D Reyes of Utah, and Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia. Curtis Hill of Indiana has since left office, having lost the primary due to a scandal, but never having to face the voters as party insiders chose the candidates instead of the voters in at least that race.
There are a few other things to note. It is possible that Xavier Becerra will be leaving his job to become part of the Biden administration if he is confirmed to his post. Not all of the attorney generals are picked by the voters and would not have elections as a result. Also, I’m also going to include here Tim Fox of Montana, who even as a lame duck had to support the horrible idea of the lawsuit of Texas versus Pennsylvania, and the attorney general of Oklahoma, Michael Hunter, who did the same thing, but will still be around.
With
not much else to say, I will end the post here. This is important to me and you
should know that any of them that were either orange or green outside of Curtis
Hill will still be around as they all won reelection in their states unless, as
stated earlier, Becerra leaves office. I plan to keep track of them in the
future some here and there. I just wish that I knew a result in the case by now
at some point in time.
