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Antwan Scott
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GOP lawmakers seek sweeping new restrictions on incoming Democratic attorney general
Changes include moving the 2020 presidential primary so that it isn't on the same date as the re-election of a right wing state Supreme Court justice appointed by Scott Walker.
Republican legislators, in an extraordinary push before their party surrenders full control of state government, want to restrict the incoming Democratic attorney general’s and governor’s powers and the state’s timeline for early voting in a lame-duck session early next week.
More than 40 proposed changes in state law on a variety of subjects were unveiled Friday at about 4:30 p.m. in five bills up for a public hearing in the Legislature’s budget-writing committee Monday. The Assembly and Senate could vote on the measures Tuesday.
Changes include moving the 2020 presidential primary so that it isn't on the same date as the re-election of a right wing state Supreme Court justice appointed by Scott Walker.