Morgan v. Daxon

and joined by LAVENDER, J.

I 1 I respectfully dissent from the order of the Court. The Court unnecessarily departs from the precedent established in a long line *689of its prior opinions, and unnecessarily cere-ates a state constitutional crisis immediately affecting the payrolls and contracts of many state agencies and their employees.

T2 House Bill No. 1570 of the Forty-Eighth Legislature, First Regular Session, referred to in legislative circles as this year's "Reconciliation Bill", contains one-hundred and eleven (111) sections.1 On June 8, 2001, the Governor of the State of Oklahoma vetoed two…