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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s governor can go ahead with a lawsuit challenging the increased power state legislators gave themselves to intervene during public health emergencies, the state Supreme Court ruled

Attorney General Todd Rokita really does not want a judge to decide any time soon whether the General Assembly has the power to convene itself for up to 40 days during a statewide emergency without the governors consent. The Republican, originally from Munster, asked the Indiana Supreme Court Monday to immediately overturn a Marion Superior Court ruling allowing the governors lawsuit against the General Assembly, over the constitutionality of House Enrolled Act 1123, to proceed toward a decisio...

View Comments A Marion County judge has ruled that Gov. Eric Holcomb can proceed with his lawsuit challenging a bill from this year’s Indiana General Assembly that restricted the governor’s emergency powers.   Judge Patrick Dietrick wrote in his order on Saturday that Holcomb is within his rights to hire private lawyers and dispute the bill in court. Lawyers with the Indiana Attorney General’s Office argued during a June hearing that only it can approve outside counsel for the gove...

A judge has scheduled oral arguments on the constitutionality of a new Indiana law permitting the General Assembly to convene during statewide emergencies without obtaining the governors consent.

Plus, the syringe exchange, started under Pence, ends.

Hearing set on whether Indiana governor may sue Legislature June 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A judge will hear arguments later this month over whether Indiana’s governor can go ahead with a lawsuit challenging the power state legislators have given themselves to intervene during public emergencies. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb asked a judge in April to block the new law passed by the GOP-dominated Legislature following criticism from many conservatives over COVID-19 res...

Attorney General Todd Rokita is arguing that Gov. Eric Holcomb had no right to file a lawsuit over a recently passed bill.

Holcomb and Rokita are feuding over governors emergency powers