Wednesday, June 24th, 2009...9:03 am
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This is from la Cervecera’s press release following the Supreme Court’s rejection of her request to have the Court order the legislature to present her the budget:
I agree with today’s ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court that stated: ‘The Court concludes that, after the Legislature finally passes a bill, the Legislature cannot delay presenting it to the Governor beyond that time needed to complete required ministerial duties.’ Further, the ruling states, ‘Presentment of the bills involved in this matter did not occur within the time mandated by the Arizona Constitution.’
The Legislature should adhere to its clear constitutional and legal duties, and present me with the budget bills, passed 18 days ago, without further delay. Anything less than an expedient presentment of the bills to my office is clearly a violation of the Arizona Constitution as found today by the Supreme Court. The Legislature should not continue to hold these bills hostage, and should instead transmit the bills immediately.
Yeah, sure the judges might think that legislative leadership were acting like bozos (and who doesn’t say that?), but they admitted that they have no authority in the matter. Despite all the sturm und drang, this changes nothing. It’s hard to see how this thing was a victory. Heck, it’s hard to see how it was anything more than a publicity exercise and a waste of time.
4 Comments
June 24th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Well, at least we know that she was in the state, and therefore was not in Buenos Aires at a secret rendevous with Mark Sanford.
June 24th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
I see you have found the magic formula for taking shit and making it not stink…….
June 24th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Not to get all Sam Coppersmith-lawyerly on you, but the Supreme Court didn’t actually conclude that it was powerless to tell the Legislature to stop its unconstitutional conduct. The Court merely declined to exercise its authority to do so for two reasons that made little sense: a) session is almost over anyway; and b) the Legislature may not have realized given the novelty of the issue that what it was doing was unconstitutional, and had they known they could have stalled the budget another, proper way. That’s a goofy ruling, but not a ruling based on any lack of authority. In fairness to the Governor, she was right on the law, and it’s not her fault the Court decided for discretionary reasons not to order a halt to conduct they found to be unconstitutional.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:44 am
The Court wussed out. Adams and Burns are acting like middle schoolers. Brewer might have avoided all of this had she been more involved in the budget from the get-go.
Meanwhile, the Democrats in the Legislature have put together a sensible, comprehensive package that would not throw the poor and our children under the bus…and they are denied a seat at the bargaining table by Brewer and their GOP colleagues.
I hope that our newly installed party chair and his staff are already scheming and plotting. This fiasco has provided us with so many openings and prospects. Every district in this state should be in play. How can Brewer and Co. say they have done anything that looks like governing?