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Minnesota House files brief in unallotment suit
Posted by: Rachel E. Stassen-Berger under Minnesota legislature Updated: November 20, 2009 - 4:11 PM
The House filed its friend-of-the-court brief this afternoon supporting a lawsuit from six poor Minnesotans whose services were cut when Gov. Tim Pawlenty slashed the budget after this year's legislative session.
Pawlenty did "not follow the literal or plain language of the law" when he unilaterally cut $2.7 billion from the state's budget, the Minnesota House told the Ramsey County judge.
Allowing Pawlenty to amend the budget as he did, "is the equivalent of giving the executive the authority to rewrite the statutes and change policy," the House said.
Read the rest of their brief here.
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