Maine Governor Seeks To Suspend State Court Order To Expand Medicaid

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) is using his final weeks in office to continue something he has been doing for nearly his entire time as governor: fighting Medicaid expansion. His administration filed court papers Monday (Nov. 26) seeking to suspend last week’s ruling from a state court judge that ordered the administration to move forward on implementing Medicaid expansion right away. The LePage administration says it wants the ruling put on hold so it can appeal. But the legal maneuvers...