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To: bigbob
Problem is...the Assembly already passed the bill so the Senate has to pass on the identical bill or it gets shipped back to Assembly.

They stalled for 60 hours the last time......I think they will have a strategy in place to halt the process.

2 posted on 03/04/2011 8:44:50 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (Out of work WI Public Employee???? THANK A TEACHER!!!!!!!)
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To: Mygirlsmom

Perhaps not. In his OpEd on this topic in NRO today, he writes:

“The Wisconsin supreme court has determined that statutes are presumptively constitutional and that unconstitutionality has to be shown beyond a reasonable doubt. According to the court, moreover, any portions of a statute that are found to be unconstitutional because they haven’t met the procedural requirements for fiscal statutes should be separated and the rest of the statute upheld.”

In other words, they’d pass the entire bill as-is, knowing it would be challenged in court and the fiscal parts thrown out, but the non-fiscal parts would be “severed” out.

He explains his theory in detail at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/261182/new-strategy-wisconsin-james-lindgren


3 posted on 03/04/2011 8:52:55 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Mygirlsmom

Republicans have a tendency to look like the Keystone Kops. They can’t seem to think ahead from the assembly to the senate.


6 posted on 03/04/2011 9:02:39 AM PST by Terry Mross (We need a SECOND party.)
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