Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says

Wisconsin Supreme Court rules governor can lock in education funding increases until 2425

The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld an unusual veto by Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) where he changed language in a bill to secure education funding for 400 years. In July 2023, Evers vetoed select words, numbers, and hyphens in the state…

Wisconsin Is Now an Authoritarian State - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Less than one-third of Wisconsin fourth graders read properly, but the Governor awarded schools 400 years of budget increases.

WI Gov. Tony Evers Used This One Weird Trick To Increase School Funding For 400 Years

‘Good one, Governor!’ Photo by ‘woodleywonderworks,’ 2008. Creative Commons License 2.0The Wisconsin state supreme court on Friday held that Gov. Tony Evers acted legally when in 2023 he used a goofy quirk in the state’s veto law to extend an increase in school funding every year for the next 400 years. Wisconsin law allows governors to partially veto parts of bills, so Evers cleverly crossed out numerals in the effective date of the funding inc…

WI Supreme Court upholds Gov. Evers partial veto extending school funding increases for 400 years

A split Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto in the last state budget extending school funding increases for an additional 400 years was within his constitutional powers. The executive partial veto powers granted in the…

Supreme Court: Governor's 400-year school funding veto was constitutional

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers' creative use of his uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be “attention grabbing,” but it was constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

A Perpetuities Problem Strikes In Wisconsin - Above the Law

The rule against perpetuities was created for two reasons: (1) to torture bar exam applicants and (2) to establish that the long dead ought not have the right to intervene in the affairs of the living. Because, however benevolent seeming at the time, dead hand control is a no-no. While the rule against perpetuities only applies in property law, Wisconsin’s idiosyncratic approach to gubernatorial veto power moves that “in perpetuity” problem into…