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Andy Beshear: “I had to get a Supreme Court opinion saying they can't take…”

Featuring: Andy Beshear, Democratic | Governor of Kentucky

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Andy Beshear on McConnell's Absence, Lindsey Graham & the Democratic Party's Future

Published | Video Starts at 07:42

He's a good man and enjoy working with him. So our state legislature has become so overly partisan with a Republican super majority that I had to get a Supreme Court opinion saying they can't take all the duties of a governor and give it to an Agriculture commissioner. This idea that we were just empty vessels, they'd move Around. And originally it could start partisan. Right. We're going to give it to a Republican. But then it could have gone. (07:42–07:49)

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Asserts that Andy Beshear obtained a Supreme Court opinion to prevent the legislature from transferring gubernatorial duties to an Agriculture commissioner.

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