'No longer acting in a rational way': GOP bills aim to strip Gretchen Whitmer's emergency powers

[Right_in_Virginia]

'No longer acting in a rational way': GOP bills aim to strip Gretchen Whitmer's emergency powers
Washington Times, Apr 16, 2020

Republicans in the Michigan Legislature have introduced bills that would limit the emergency powers of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A day after thousands of Michiganders marched on Lansing to protest Ms. Whitmer’s stringent stay-at-home orders, bills were introduced in both the House and Senate to repeal or prune the laws under which Ms. Whitmer acted.

According to a Thursday report in the Detroit Free Press, bills in both chambers would repeal the 1945 Emergency Powers of the Governor Act concerning times of “great public crisis” as determined by the governor.

Another bill, the Free Press reported, would cut the number of days for which a governor could declare a state of emergency from 28 days under a 1976 law to 14 days.

“The 1945 law is more vague and less constrained. We do not feel that law applies to the situation we’re facing today,” said Sen. Tom Barrett, Charlotte Republican. “And we feel that we have a balance of power in state government and we need to put more legislative control into that power balance.”


More:  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/16/gretchen-whitmer-emergency-powers-threatened-michi/

[Idiot]

'No longer acting in a rational way': GOP bills aim to strip Gretchen Whitmer's emergency powers
Washington Times, Apr 16, 2020

Republicans in the Michigan Legislature have introduced bills that would limit the emergency powers of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A day after thousands of Michiganders marched on Lansing to protest Ms. Whitmer’s stringent stay-at-home orders, bills were introduced in both the House and Senate to repeal or prune the laws under which Ms. Whitmer acted.

According to a Thursday report in the Detroit Free Press, bills in both chambers would repeal the 1945 Emergency Powers of the Governor Act concerning times of “great public crisis” as determined by the governor.

Another bill, the Free Press reported, would cut the number of days for which a governor could declare a state of emergency from 28 days under a 1976 law to 14 days.

“The 1945 law is more vague and less constrained. We do not feel that law applies to the situation we’re facing today,” said Sen. Tom Barrett, Charlotte Republican. “And we feel that we have a balance of power in state government and we need to put more legislative control into that power balance.”


More:  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/16/gretchen-whitmer-emergency-powers-threatened-michi/

[Fishrrman]

Don't these bills need her signature to pass?
Good luck...!

[Smokin Joe]

Don't these bills need her signature to pass?
Good luck...!

But...If the Governor vetoes a bill while the Legislature is in session or recess, one of the following actions may occur:

    The Legislature may override the veto by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to and serving in each house. The bill then becomes law.
    The bill may not receive the necessary two-thirds vote and thus the attempt to override the veto will fail.
    The bill may be tabled.
    The bill may be re-referred to a committee.

[bilo]

It seems like people are rising up all over the country. I think it's a beautiful thing.

The Rats are in a tough spot. The Red states are in good shape and are opening up. The Blue state Governors are going to have a tough time keeping their state in lockdown when people in the next state are going back to work. Trump has been very smart in putting it on the individual states to decide. The Pubs will gain with the public while Pelosi shows off her $24,000 fridge and $14 a pint ice cream.

[mortarman]

In Wisconsin our legislature an' previous Governor were prescient in these matters. Not that it appears to have done any good. Dis-Loyal Opposition politicians either jus' don't abide by laws they don't like or make up the rules to suit whatever it is they are trying to do to us.

 

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Don't these bills need her signature to pass?
Good luck...!

DOA.  No chance for overturning a VETO.