Critics of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s high-profile health care lawsuit have questioned the motives behind it – nearly inevitable, given its slog through Congress and Cuccinelli’s other endeavors as attorney general.

Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a consumer group that supported President Obama’s health-care reforms,  said Cuccinelli’s argument in a Richmond court Monday “represented political extremism and requested judicial activism run amok.”