{"id":12773,"date":"2024-09-18T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12773"},"modified":"2024-09-18T06:57:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T06:57:02","slug":"irg-files-amicus-brief-in-partial-veto-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12773","title":{"rendered":"IRG FILES AMICUS BRIEF IN PARTIAL VETO CASE"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/irg-files-amicus-brief-in-partial-veto-case\/<\/a><\/p>\n

September 18, 2024\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

IRG FILES AMICUS BRIEF IN PARTIAL VETO CASE\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The brief provides critical historical context for the Court<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Delafield, WI<\/b> \u2013 Yesterday, IRG filed an <\/span>amicus curiae<\/span><\/i> brief in <\/span>LeMieux v. Evers<\/span><\/i>, a case filed by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) in April challenging the Governor\u2019s partial veto of 2023 Wisconsin Act 19. The partial veto extended the Legislature\u2019s $325 per student revenue increase through 2425 \u2013 <\/span>400 years<\/b> longer than approved by the Legislature.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Read a copy of the amicus brief here.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

WHAT IT IS:<\/b> IRG\u2019s <\/span>amicus<\/span><\/i> provides critical historical perspective to the Court. As explained in its brief, in 1931, Governor Philip La Follette became the first governor to exercise the partial veto authority, doing so on two occasions. But Governor La Follette\u2019s most significant partial veto was the one he never made. In his veto message to that year\u2019s budget bill, Governor La Follette noted that the bill reduced the appropriation to the University of Wisconsin from the prior budget. He observed that vetoing the reduced appropriation would have allowed UW\u2019s funding to continue at the prior budget\u2019s higher level. Governor La Follette authored a thoughtful veto message explaining that using the partial veto power to increase public spending would be <\/span>unconstitutional<\/b>. From 1931\u20131987, no governor attempted to use the partial veto power to increase public spending or taxation. Unfortunately, governors from both parties have since ignored the precedent established in 1931 and abused the partial veto authority.<\/span><\/p>\n

WHY DOES IT MATTER:<\/b> The governor\u2019s partial veto power shifts some of the power to decide what legislation will say away from the many (the legislature) and assigns it to the one (the governor). Unless this power is carefully monitored and its constitutional limits rigorously enforced, it risks the creation of laws that undermine\u2014rather than advance\u2014the will of the people.<\/span><\/p>\n

IRG\u2019s Chief Legal Counsel and Director of Oversight Jake Curtis released the following statement:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1990 and 2008 the Wisconsin voters amended the state\u2019s Constitution to scale back the gubernatorial veto power. Governor Evers\u2019 decision to use the partial veto to increase funding for <\/span><\/i>400 years, a period longer than the existence of our state and country,<\/span><\/i> beyond what the Legislature authorized is an affront to our constitutional order. The Court has an opportunity to reign in the veto authority to the limits followed by Governor La Follette in 1931.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

For questions, please email Jake Curtis, IRG\u2019s General Counsel and Director of Oversight: <\/span>[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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IRG\u2019s <\/span><\/i>Center for Investigative Oversight<\/span><\/i><\/a> was created in 2023 to hold government accountable.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The <\/span><\/i>Institute for Reforming Government<\/span><\/i><\/a> is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that seeks to simplify government at every level by offering policy solutions to thought leaders in American government in the areas of tax reform, government inefficiency, and burdensome regulations.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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