{"id":18541,"date":"2018-12-03T17:18:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T23:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18541"},"modified":"2018-12-03T17:18:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T23:18:44","slug":"that-next-state-constitutional-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/03\/that-next-state-constitutional-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"That Next State Constitutional Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the 2016 attempt by the North Carolina\u00a0<i><b>GOP<\/b><\/i>-controlled legislature to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/north-carolina-republicans-complete-their-coup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/north-carolina-republicans-complete-their-coup&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543965408271000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEr42zcHQdhj8pxSP0HMeEvsLZ7sA\">strip\u00a0<\/a>the incoming Democratic governor of certain powers (now bogged down in the Courts), and recent similar activities in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/wisconsin-republicans-scramble-rig-the-game-they-lose-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/wisconsin-republicans-scramble-rig-the-game-they-lose-power&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543965408272000&amp;usg=AFQjCNENTmjJci0PYk7qG7Y82U1dQjTBCA\">Wisconsin\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/michigan-republicans-scramble-rig-the-game-they-lose-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/michigan-republicans-scramble-rig-the-game-they-lose-power&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543965408272000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHtRMvKL-26YT8ubaNoDfU6Z66pmg\">Michigan<\/a>, I wonder how long it&#8217;ll be before state Constitutional Amendments begin appearing forbidding lame-duck legislative sessions in which the duties and powers of the various branches of government are modified.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of shit didn&#8217;t used to happen all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the 2016 attempt by the North Carolina\u00a0GOP-controlled legislature to\u00a0strip\u00a0the incoming Democratic governor of certain powers (now bogged down in the Courts), and recent similar activities in\u00a0Wisconsin\u00a0and\u00a0Michigan, I wonder how long it&#8217;ll be before state Constitutional Amendments begin appearing forbidding lame-duck legislative sessions in which the duties and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/03\/that-next-state-constitutional-amendment\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18542,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18541\/revisions\/18542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}