Ohio Attorney General David Yost meets with law enforcement and members of the Ohio National Guard posted at the Ohio Capitol building on January 17, 2021. | Zach D. Roberts/NurPhoto/Getty Images

Ohio wants red states to be able to get something for nothing from the federal government.

A few things in life are certain. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Everyone dies. Taxes must be paid.

And if a Democratic president signs a historic piece of legislation, a Republican state attorney general will file a lawsuit claiming that the new law is unconstitutional.

Indeed, by the standards of such lawsuits, the claim in Ohio v. Yellen, a lawsuit filed by Ohio’s Republican Attorney General Dave Yost, is fairly mild. Yost does not seek a court order striking down the entire $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the