BY JESS BRAVIN
WASHINGTON—Legal skirmishes over the health-care overhaul intensified Wednesday, as Republican officials urged the Supreme Court to intervene quickly and House Democrats called on Justice Clarence Thomas to sit the case out because of his wife's work for groups opposed to the law.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli petitioned the Supreme Court to take the case immediately, calling resolution of the overhaul's constitutionality "a matter of imperative public importance." Separately, 28 Republican governors wrote to President Barack Obama, asking the administration to back an expedited review. The governors said that would "help prevent the states and the private sector from undertaking ...
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