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Governors often have a line-item veto [0]. They can strike text out of a bill during signing, including in ways that change the meaning. [0] https://en.wikiped
by closeparen 4y ago
Governors often have a line-item veto [0]. They can strike text out of a bill during signing, including in ways that change the meaning.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto
- patmcc 4y agoIt's maybe the dumbest possible idea, no sensible government should allow it.
- eftychis 4y agoI agree. This is problematic in so many ways. So essentially 43 states (according to wikipedia article shared) have no fruitful division of political powers. If executive power has legislation power, how that can go wrong I wonder -- looks at history book...
- fsckboy 4y agoa line item veto makes sense in the case (as the name implies) of line items of a budget bill, deleting budgetary line items. It was initially intended to fight pork barrel politics.