The move seemingly achieved the predicted outcome of infuriating political opponents.
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Evers also used his veto pen to lock in funding for Wisconsin's public school system for four centuries, changing the phrase "2023-24 school year and the 2024-25 school year" to the "2023-2425" school years. Lacking a supermajority, state Republicans are likely powerless to overturn the veto by legislative means, as doing so would require a two-thirds vote, and so they have vowed to contest the move in court.
"This is where I think the question comes up with what Gov. Evers has done," Bernick said. "I would say that making '2425' a new year, a new word -- in my personal opinion, I don't think it meets the test." Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at the Sawmill Brewing Company on Nov. 3, 2022 in Merrill, Wis.In 2020, the state Supreme Court struck down three of Evers' partial vetoes, reversing a decades-long trend of the court upholding or expanding the governor's veto power. At the time, the justices could not decide on rules to guide the use of the partial veto in the future, leaving the fate of this veto particularly difficult to predict.
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