According to Reuters and The Washington Post:
Two of the Democratic Party’s biggest wins last month occurred in Wisconsin and Michigan, where their candidates won gubernatorial elections, unseating a well-known incumbent in the former and flipping the seat in the latter. In anticipation of having to work with a Democratic governor, state lawmakers are aiming to hurriedly pass legislation that would dilute the executives' powers.
The moves in both states have drawn comparisons to Republican efforts in NC in 2016, when lawmakers pushed through legislation limiting the authority of the state’s Democratic governor, after he defeated the incumbent Republican.
The proposals include preventing the incoming governor from withdrawing Wisconsin from a legal challenge to the federal Affordable Care Act, sidestepping the attorney general’s power to represent the state in litigation and rescheduling a 2020 election to boost the chances of a Republican state Supreme Court Justice, among others.
U.S. Republicans and Democrats have a history of using lame-duck sessions to advance priorities ahead of power shifts. Wisconsin Democrats in 2010 unsuccessfully tried to push through public union contracts after Walker won election while promising to get tough with organized labor.
Meanwhile, in Utah, lawmakers are getting ready to meet in a special lame-duck session on Monday (Dec 3rd) to rewrite a medical marijuana law that voters passed this November. Patient advocates are saying the move is an end run around voters.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @03:57PM (2 children)
Lovely. GreatAuntAlzheimers jumps in with both feet immediately proclaiming "Repugnican apologists" while dismissing the same behavior of its preferred side as whataboutism. This is the new get-out-of-jail-free card that the leftards jump to play whenever their own actions and policies are replicated by those they despise. These days, it is only slightly less preferred to their all time favorite, the race card and reaching parity to their rising star, the Nazi card. It is truly despicable when they excuse their own only to point fingers across the aisle and accuse their opponents.
Ivanka Trump/Hillary Clinton
Bret Kavanaugh/Keith Ellison
Even that biased right wing fake news propaganda machine, NPR, this morning had a story where an academic admitted that Democrats are as guilty as Republicans of these horrible actions. Sheesh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @08:23PM (1 child)
National Public Radio is now right wing?!? When did this happen? Are you posting from a parallel Universe? What is the color of the sky in your world? Or was this intended as sarcasm?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 04 2018, @10:11PM
He forgot his <sarc> tags. It was obvious from context, so you must have skimmed.
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