Schweich v. Nixon

The Missouri State Auditor filed a declaratory judgment action challenging an announcement issued by the Governor of the State of Missouri allegedly withholding certain monies from the 2012 fiscal year (“FY 2012”) state budget for the Missouri legislature, the Supreme Court of Missouri, and the office of the Auditor. The trial court found that the Governor has complete discretion to control the rate of expenditures and to withhold or reduce expenditures at any time provided that actual revenues are less than the estimated revenues — in practical terms, at any *772time until the final day of the…