Question For Maine’s Highest Court: Is Gov. Lepage Breaking The Law By Stalling Medicaid Expansion?

Chief Justice Leigh Saufley of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and Donald G. Alexander, senior associate justice, seen last year. Saufley said during Wednesday’s arguments on voter-approved Medicaid expansion, “A lot of this is a political question.” Joe Phelan Maine Supreme Judicial Court justices heard lively arguments Wednesday over whether to allow the LePage administration to continue to delay filing plans with federal officials to expand Medicaid while the larger legal case plays out. Chief Justice Leigh Saufley acknowledged that the court faced a “procedural conundrum” in hearing an appeal of a lower court ruling ordering the LePage administration to file expansion plans with federal Medicaid regulators.