Washington State Legislature v. Lowry

(dissenting) — No amount of judicial circumlocution should be allowed to undo what the people have done through exercise of their ultimate and most fundamental organic power to amend the constitution. In the form of the 62nd amendment the voters repealed the Governor’s line item veto and substituted a much more limited power in its place: the power to veto a whole bill, an entire "section” or an "appropriation item.” But the majority would have us believe it thinks better than the people who amended the constitution, and assures us it is much fairer than the Legislature in the discharge of…