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  • Time to remind lawmakers of obligation

    Larry Ziegler|Updated Oct 4, 2021

    Article II of the state Constitution vests all legislative authority in the Legislature and specifically reserves supplementary power in the people as regards the legislative process. For the last several years, however, the Legislature has shirked its responsibilities and thereby caused a troubling accretion of supposed power in the executive and judicial branches of our government. The Supreme Court – relying on a single word in the in the preamble to Article IX – found that it had the power to not only hold the Leg...