Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Request SCOTUS to Review Obamacare This Year

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has asked the Supreme Court to not allow Obamacare to go through the long process of getting to the highest court. He wants the court to expedite the case. Normally the case would have to go through an appeals court, but Cuccinelli is lobbying the court to bypass appeals knowing it's headed to SCOTUS no matter what.

"Regardless of whether you believe the law is constitutional or not, we should all agree that a prompt resolution is in everyone's interest," Cuccinelli says in a statement.

"I want Virginia to win, but win or lose, I want my governor to know what he's going to have to be spending, and my legislators," the attorney general tells WTOP.

The request is being prepared and will be filed "as soon as is practicable," Cuccinelli's office says.

Georgetown University law professor Paul Rothstein tells WTOP it's likely the Supreme Court will go along with Virginia's request to speed up the case.

"They feel an obligation to decide the big issues that no other organ of government can really settle once and for all," he says.

Rothstein says the health care case could end up being one of the biggest high court cases in U.S. history.