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Maniac64 posted...

What was the use that went way too far and caused the rule court to step in?

Republican Governor tried to lower a revenue limit in a bill. WI does allow for the governor to lower appropriated funds and tried to argue that meant he could alter any number but the Court ruled that it only applies to appropriation numbers and not "any dollar amount contained within the bill."

To bring this back to more recent events - Evers isn't even the first one to play around with dates to make them comically long. Scott Walker, again, changed "December 31, 2018" to "December 3018" in a different school bill as governor. So this is just literally "turnabout is fair play."

Do I think this power should probably be done away with in its entirety? Yeah, it's pretty silly. But as long as it's there, and especially if the GOP is using it, Dems tying their hands behind their back and not using the exact same loopholes being used against them just feels self-defeating. Kinda like gerrymandering/redistricting. I once was on the side of "Gerrymandering is obviously awful and I think it'd be good for Dems to lead by example and get rid of it where they can" but I feel like that was a naive position on my part and amounted to just unilaterally disarming as red states kept getting more and more brazen with it so you had red states gerrymandered to hell and blue states with fair maps tilting Congress even more in their favor.