Several questions are now on the table after Governor Laura Kelly won her court battle against the Legislative Coordinating Council over the weekend.
Acting with lightning speed for legal matters, the Kansas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether the Coordinating Council could override her executive order limiting church and funeral gatherings to 10 people and then ruled in the governor’s favor on Saturday. The court ruled the language in a concurrent resolution, which specified the length of the ongoing state of disaster, wasn’t appropriate and was actually “nonsense,” according to Justice Caleb Stegall.
60th District Representative Mark Schreiber of Emporia says he wasn’t part of those discussions on the concurrent resolution. For him, a big question is how to handle an extension of the current state of disaster.
Complicating matters: lawmakers are supposed to come back to veto session April 27, but the latest projections have coronavirus cases peaking around that time. On top of that, the governor’s current stay-home order is set to expire this upcoming Sunday.
Governor Kelly has her latest daily news briefing slated for 2 pm Monday. We’ll cover that for you on KVOE and KVOE.com.
