Obama Agenda Facing Numerous GOP Lawsuits

Republicans and Republican-aligned business groups are mounting lawsuits against Obama administration initiatives in three important areas: health care, climate change and immigration. State attorneys general, business groups and elected officials are among the plaintiffs. Michael D. Shear in the New York Times looks at who is suing whom on what issues, finding Democrats who see it as hypocrisy from the party that has decried “judicial activism and Republicans who say it’s a legitimate response to executive overreach.