They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'
Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts.
I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.
Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.
As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.
I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
The news changes every day. So it's not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.
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