Rep. Jerry Sexton, R-Bean Station, has announced his intent to seek an override of the Governor's veto of the 'Bible as the Official State Book' bill. The Attorney General has said it's unconstitutional. The Governor has said it's unconstitutional and a trivialization of the Christian religion. Everybody knows the bill is unconstitutional and will be invalidated by the courts when it is inevitably challenged.
Sexton nonetheless wants to waste our tax money by overriding the veto and requiring the subsequent court action to invalidate it.
Why is it the people who claim to be most opposed to wasteful government spending and claim to want limited government nonetheless seek to unconsitutionally waste government resources to establish and inevitably fail in a defense of their religion as the law of the land?
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Haslam's veto sticks, House
Haslam's veto sticks, House fails to override
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They probably thought a 'no' vote meant 'no' to the veto.