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[+] [S] 125 points 3 years ago (12 children)
  • [–] 106 points 3 years ago

    Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425

    Now that's what I'm talking about. I will gladly cheer on this kind of fuckery when it does good.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    I'm all for what he did, but with a power like this, he or any other future governor can veto "doesn't" to "do" and "can't" to "can". Probably baiting the WI SCOTUS to strike down the power before dems loose the office.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Anyone more familiar with how this works? Like, that wording is weird to me. How much revenue they can raise per student.

    So is this like, local school taxes? Or like local fund raising? That wording doesn't sound like it's as big a win as the article title makes it sound like?

    What are they supposed to do in the year 2425? Raise $140,000 per student?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Yeah, that's not going to survive a court challenge.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wisconsin allows this kind of partial veto by their governor. Scott Walker did a similar thing when he was governor preventing schools from adopting energy efficiency for hundreds of years

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Honest question if you have inside knowledge - doesn't the Wis. Governors partial veto authority make this constitutional?

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It almost certainly is. It comports with precedent and prior Wisconsin court cases have ruled in favor of this use of the veto.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto_in_the_United_States#Wisconsin

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Plus, unless he’s done something inconsistent with the state constitution, the state Supreme Court will have a liberal majority in August. I can’t imagine this could be challenged by a lower state court and make its way to the state Supreme Court before then.

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