It does not appear the judges are doing so in this case. I take it as strictly a ruling that the Governor does not have arbitrary budgeting authority, and that the power rests solely with the legislature.
That is how SC Governor Sanford's refusal to accept federal stimulus money was over turned. Only the legislature has the authority to appropriate funds.
The State of Minnesota is required to have a balanced budget. If the Legislature fails to act, which it did in this case, the Gov has the constitutional authority to balance the budget. Pawlenty is completly correct, the court wholly wrong. As with it's decision in he Coleman Vrs Frankin case, this is partisan politics trumping the rule of law.
The MN court here felt that the funding should be restored for no other reason then partisan ideological dogma. Their decision is without any reasonable base in Minnesota law. It was a purely ideological, not legal, decision.