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Kentucky's Other Amendment - Chore of Duty Podcast 502


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Kentucky's general election ballot for 2022 includes a constitutional amendment that has everyone picking sides: whether courts should be able to find anything in Kentucky's Constitution that would permit abortion of any type.

BUT (rule #2: there's always a big ol' but)

There's another much longer amendment that would change how Kentucky's legislature will work forever.

Spike explains how the leaders of Kentucky's House and Senate want to re-establish a crucial check on the Governor's power by allowing those leaders to call Special Sessions of the Legislature, with or without the Governor's consent.

He also looks at the history of this amendment, and why it's so important that nearly every media outlet in the Commonwealth has studiously ignored it.

Think. Again. The Chore of Duty...

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