Security News > 2023 > July > Wisconsin Governor Hacks the Veto Process

This is a great example: The Wisconsin governor used his line-item veto powers-supposedly unique in their specificity-to change a one-year funding increase into a 400-year funding increase.

For the limit for the 2023-24 school year and the 2024-25 school year, add $325 to the result under par.

Rick Champagne, director and general counsel of the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau, said Evers' 400-year veto is lawful in terms of its form because the governor vetoed words and digits.

"Both are allowable under the constitution and court decisions on partial veto. The hyphen seems to be new, but the courts have allowed partial veto of punctuation," Champagne said.

This is not what anyone thinks about when they imagine using a line-item veto.

The real solution is to return the line-item veto to what we all think it is: the ability to remove individual whole provisions from a law before signing it.

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