Emergency powers reform killed by lawmakers
Hopefully those lawmakers coming to Olympia in 2023 will have a stronger appetite for ensuring checks and balances and separations of power.
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Hopefully those lawmakers coming to Olympia in 2023 will have a stronger appetite for ensuring checks and balances and separations of power.
The legislature has just nine days left in session to make clear if it still believes it is relevant to our form of government.
State editorial pages also know that SB 5909 isn’t real emergency powers reform.
The Governor should not fear being required to make the case to lawmakers why a particular emergency proposal is appropriate to continue, and the legislature should not hide from its constitutional responsibility to debate and adopt policy.
Our system is not meant to be the arbitrary rule of one behind closed doors