Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required). It begins: “When it became known that the $39 billion budget reconciliation bill signed last month by President Bush raised serious constitutional questions–embarrassingly, the language in its House and Senate versions did not match up– it was only a matter of time before someone filed suit to block it. As it turned out, the man who decided to stick a finger in the eye of Congress and the White House by filing a federal lawsuit is no stranger to controversy. Jim Zeigler, a conservative Alabama lawyer and two-time Bush convention delegate, has a long history of antagonizing his state’s political establishment. In interviews with a range of Alabama political insiders, the 57-year-old Zeigler was described as a ‘gadfly’ only slightly more often than he was labeled ‘a maverick.'”