If these people broke the law and public money was paid out in an improper manner, they could be held responsible to pay that money back.

They studied it. You can't manipulate a law unless you know how it works. And they were in the process of manipulating it, well past the point of breaking it, when we caught them.

The federal prescription drug plan was touted as a measure to help seniors and save the states money. Instead, it's failing our most vulnerable elderly and disabled citizens, and it's failing the taxpayers of Kentucky.

We have diligently enforced our statute, and we are asking the court to find that we have done so. Then we will ask the court to order companies to pay in full.

In all the years I was in the legislature -- and I'll swear this on a stack of Bibles -- he never asked me to do anything or vote in a particular way, other than he always wants us to build more roads in the mountains.

All of this is so unprecedented to begin with -- the fact one party to a case can appoint his own justices.