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Republican state legislative leaders on Wednesday said Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has drafted language for a constitutional amendment limiting governors’ emergency declaration powers that is “clearly slanted” and meant “to scare voters away.”
Earlier this month, the GOP-led Legislature passed the constitutional amendment limiting emergency declarations to 21 days unless an extension is agreed to by legislators.
The measure comes after they fought with Wolf for nearly a year over his 90-day declarations and extensions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The constitutional amendment question will be on the May 18 primary ballot for Pennsylvania voters to decide, and the Department of State recently advertised the language for the question.
A Wolf spokeswoman defends the Department of State's wording of proposed constitutional amendments that curb the governor's powers in emergency disasters as necessary to provide context. A GOP leader say it's intended to scare voters to vote against them.
When it comes to the Constitution, there is a lot that is spelled out — and a lot that has to be figured out along the way. That’s how judges and constitutional law professors keep their jobs. It’s also why after more than 200 years, there is still such debate
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