LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: A day after he angrily accused lawmakers of passing a “garbage” budget he then sliced to bits, Gov. Tom Wolf got a much-needed win for himself and perhaps for future governors looking for more negotiating power with the Legislature…
The ruling was issued as part of a lawsuit the Senate filed against former Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in a political and legal turf war over cuts. Wolf, a Democrat, inherited the lawsuit when he took office this year.
According to the ruling, a governor has the constitutional and legal right to partially veto spending items in the state budget and in the so-called fiscal code… (more)
