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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Attorney General Henry McMaster is expected to have arguments filed about why the Supreme Court should referee a challenge in South Carolina's fight over federal stimulus money.

The Supreme Court told McMaster he has a 1 p.m. Monday deadline for his first response.

A Chapin High School student getting help for free from a couple of the state's best known Democratic lawyers filed a lawsuit

Thursday asking the court to decide whether the Legislature can seek federal stimulus cash that Gov. Mark Sanford has insisted be used to reduce state debt. The White House twice rejected that idea.

McMaster said Thursday he was pleased the Supreme Court would address the lawsuit quickly but that legislators and the governor had more time to work out disagreements.

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