He vetoed it Tuesday.
Wednesday, the PEOPLE took Ohio back!
COLUMBUS, Ohio — GOP lawmakers on Wednesday made good on their promise to check the authority of fellow Republican Gov. Mike DeWine by issuing the first override of his term after a yearlong battle over how the state should respond during a health emergency.
The Republican-controlled House and Senate voted after short debates in each chamber to reject DeWine's veto of legislation restricting the state including local health departments' ability to respond to emergencies such as the coronavirus pandemic.
The legislation simply gives lawmakers the power to review orders issued by the Ohio Department of Health, with more than 30 states having similar laws, said Senate President Matt Huffman, a Lima Republican.
“The people must never feel forgotten, especially during times of emergency, when unchecked power can be used to impact lives and livelihoods,” Huffman said.
Bill’s sponsor Sen. Rob McColley, a Napoleon Republican, argued in favor of the measure Wednesday before the vote.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for us to stand up for the legislative branch. It’s time for us to reassert ourselves as a separate and co-equal branch of government here in the state of Ohio,” McColley said. “We need to stand up and we need to finish this for all the Ohioans who have been asking us for a long time to be their voice.”
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bignflnut wrote:He vetoed it Tuesday.
Wednesday, the PEOPLE took Ohio back!
COLUMBUS, Ohio — GOP lawmakers on Wednesday made good on their promise to check the authority of fellow Republican Gov. Mike DeWine by issuing the first override of his term after a yearlong battle over how the state should respond during a health emergency.
The Republican-controlled House and Senate voted after short debates in each chamber to reject DeWine's veto of legislation restricting the state including local health departments' ability to respond to emergencies such as the coronavirus pandemic.
The legislation simply gives lawmakers the power to review orders issued by the Ohio Department of Health, with more than 30 states having similar laws, said Senate President Matt Huffman, a Lima Republican.
“The people must never feel forgotten, especially during times of emergency, when unchecked power can be used to impact lives and livelihoods,” Huffman said.
Bill’s sponsor Sen. Rob McColley, a Napoleon Republican, argued in favor of the measure Wednesday before the vote.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for us to stand up for the legislative branch. It’s time for us to reassert ourselves as a separate and co-equal branch of government here in the state of Ohio,” McColley said. “We need to stand up and we need to finish this for all the Ohioans who have been asking us for a long time to be their voice.”
90 days to Take Back Ohio!
They should have passed that as emergency legislation so that there would have been no delay.
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bignflnut wrote:He vetoed it Tuesday.
Wednesday, the PEOPLE took Ohio back!
COLUMBUS, Ohio — GOP lawmakers on Wednesday made good on their promise to check the authority of fellow Republican Gov. Mike DeWine by issuing the first override of his term after a yearlong battle over how the state should respond during a health emergency.
The Republican-controlled House and Senate voted after short debates in each chamber to reject DeWine's veto of legislation restricting the state including local health departments' ability to respond to emergencies such as the coronavirus pandemic.
The legislation simply gives lawmakers the power to review orders issued by the Ohio Department of Health, with more than 30 states having similar laws, said Senate President Matt Huffman, a Lima Republican.
“The people must never feel forgotten, especially during times of emergency, when unchecked power can be used to impact lives and livelihoods,” Huffman said.
Bill’s sponsor Sen. Rob McColley, a Napoleon Republican, argued in favor of the measure Wednesday before the vote.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for us to stand up for the legislative branch. It’s time for us to reassert ourselves as a separate and co-equal branch of government here in the state of Ohio,” McColley said. “We need to stand up and we need to finish this for all the Ohioans who have been asking us for a long time to be their voice.”
90 days to Take Back Ohio!
They should have passed that as emergency legislation so that there would have been no delay.
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I am not a fan of constitutional amendments. And Ohio's Constitution is already ridiculously convoluted (casinos anyone?). However, I would fully support a constitutional amendment that restricts the so-called "emergency powers" of the governor and/or any executive administrative agency to no more than 14 days. I.E., in responding to a health emergency, the governor or ODH can institute measures that automatically expire after 14 days unless voted on and passed/affirmed by the legislature.
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schmieg wrote:
They should have passed that as emergency legislation so that there would have been no delay.
Amen.
One wonders what DeWhine will do to circumvent SB22, extending his power in the next 90 days.
One doubts he will take this lying down.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798
When asked if he will take it to the Supreme Court, DeWine said “I don’t know at this point. My opinion on the constitutionality of it has not changed. Whether we file something or somebody else does, I don’t know at this point.”
So he's using SCOGSO as leverage over the next 3 months to get another bill passed...
He's not willing to say it yet, but he'll ask SCOGSO to stop SB22 while they determine it's "Constitutionality".
A proper ruling would say that the Governor does not have absolute authority to uphold his arbitrary version of "public safety".
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798
Irony is a governor, who has spent the last year trampling individual’s Constitutional rights and exercising unchecked “emergency authority” in the purported name of public safety, complaining that a bill passed by the legislature that limits such power by imposing legislative oversight is “unconstitutional”.
Put more simply: Dewine can go **** himself.
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