Common Cause of Kentucky v. Commonwealth

OPINION AND ORDER

KNOPF, Judge.

The 2004 General Assembly adjourned its regular session without having enacted an omnibus appropriation for the Executive Branch of Kentucky’s government. Common Cause of Kentucky, a non-profit, non-partisan association of citizens and taxpayers 1 that seeks, in its own words, “to hold elected leaders accountable to the public interest,” contends that the Executive Branch’s expenditure of funds in the absence of a legislative appropriation offends our state constitution. It seeks an order prohibiting the State Treasurer from disbursing funds to the Executive…