In their lawsuit, the brewers said they face “potential criminal enforcement actions against them for possessing millions of dollars’ worth of inventory that they bought in good faith before the governor’s veto.”
By David Beasley, The Center Square
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) had the legal authority to veto parts of an appropriations bill that would have allowed beer companies to continue selling hemp beverages until the end of the year, the state argued in a filing with the state Supreme Court.
“The governor may veto any item in any bill making an appropriation of money,” the state said in its response to a lawsuit by brewers challenging DeWine’s veto. “For over a hundred years, everyone took the Constitution at its word: ‘any item’ truly meant ‘any item’ in an appropriations bill.”
The brewers are asking the Supreme Court to “find a hidden limitation in the Constitution’s text that apparently went unnoticed by generations of legislators, governors, and litigants,” the state said. “So, this is an easy case, or at least, it should be.”
A group of brewers sued the state, challenging DeWine’s “line item” veto of portions of Senate Bill 56 that would have given companies until December 31
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