{"id":63867,"date":"2017-07-20T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63867"},"modified":"2017-07-20T00:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T05:34:33","slug":"thats-gonna-leave-a-er-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63867","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Gonna Leave A&#8230;Er, Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think you&#8217;ll go your entire life without seeing a Minnesota judge take a stance\u00a0<em>against\u00a0<\/em>tyranny, <a href=\"http:\/\/alphanewsmn.com\/daytons-defunding-legislature-overturned-court\/\">this goes and happens<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Ramsey County judge ruled Wednesday that Gov. Mark Dayton violated the Minnesota Constitution when he vetoed funding for the legislature earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court concludes that the Governor\u2019s vetoes violated the Separation of Powers clause of the Minnesota Constitution because they both nullified a branch of government and refashioned the line-item veto as a tool to secure the repeal or modification of policy legislation unrelated to the vetoed appropriation,\u201d Judge John Guthmann wrote in his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Dayton vetoed the funding for the State Senate and House at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alphanewsmn.com\/the-legislative-session-is-far-from-over\/\">end of May<\/a>. He did so in an attempt to force Republican legislative leaders into a special session, where he hoped to see tax breaks and language barring illegal immigrants from getting driver\u2019s licenses repealed. He had signed those provisions into law because a provision in the State Government Omnibus bill would have defunded the Minnesota Department of Revenue unless the Tax Bill was signed into law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please, Governor <del>Flint Smith<\/del> Dayton &#8211; I beg of you. \u00a0Appeal. \u00a0You have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think you&#8217;ll go your entire life without seeing a Minnesota judge take a stance\u00a0against\u00a0tyranny, this goes and happens? A Ramsey County judge ruled Wednesday that Gov. Mark Dayton violated the Minnesota Constitution when he vetoed funding for the legislature earlier this year. \u201cThe court concludes that the Governor\u2019s vetoes violated the Separation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63868,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63867\/revisions\/63868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}