tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061582353562134652.post2844451007539937073..comments2024-03-26T16:02:48.175-07:00Comments on Very Angry Bird: Another box canyon...Very Angry Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15026531280513685057noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061582353562134652.post-15043346415702295762017-09-13T06:04:33.208-07:002017-09-13T06:04:33.208-07:00I like the box canyon analogy, but it's also a...I like the box canyon analogy, but it's also a Catch-22. If Dayton wants to renegotiate AND actually talks the Legislature into such stupidity, HOW, exactly, does the Legislature meet when they have no budget to do so? (WHY is maybe the even better question.) And next year, when the Guv wants a bonding bill, or something else, the Legislature will not be able to meet at all. Suppose, by the unlikeliest chance, that Dayton realizes his mistake and offers to give up all demands if the legislature will just come back, say next year, and do their constitutional duty. How does he UNdo his own veto to make that happen? Dayton got into a box canyon and then sealed it off, as near as I can tell. jerrye92002https://www.blogger.com/profile/01858692298982859775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061582353562134652.post-16347481006855785132017-09-12T18:03:27.224-07:002017-09-12T18:03:27.224-07:00At the center of the conflict is Dayton’s decision...At the center of the conflict is Dayton’s decision at the end of May to line-item veto funding for the operations of the House and Senate. <br />By Dayton’s account, he used his line-item-veto power so that he could avoid a total government shutdown while also compelling legislative leaders back into negotiations over provisions he didn’t like in several other bills, including a $650 million package of tax cuts. <br />Legislators said that his move violated the Minnesota Constitution by effectively abolishing a separate branch of government, so they took him to court.<br /><br />Let's say the ruling as is now is law for the future. This is an invitation for every future governor to essentially veto a hostile Legislature and force them back to the table, This has the potential for gubernatorial aggrandizement of a sort that we’ve never seen in the history of the Constitution. <br /><br />Our Constitution requires ‘three distinct departments: legislative, executive and judicial,’ ” the ruling reads. “Minnesotans may soon be deprived of their constitutional right to three independent branches of government.”<br /><br /><br />What’s also clear is that no emergency funding is coming to the Legislature anytime soon. In its short ruling, the court said it does not think the judicial branch has the authority to authorize any kind of funding, even in an emergency. The Constitution gives the power of appropriation to the Legislature, not the courts.<br /><br />So that is the dilemma. Courts can't allocate funds and Constitution requires 3 branches of Govt. <br /><br />What would Jeff Johnson do if Governor with a Democratic legislature?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04401746259487330914noreply@blogger.com