This precedent frightens me. Anyone else?
Court overrides state constitution.
CARSON CITY -- In a stunning decision Thursday, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that the Legislature needs only a simple majority to pass record tax increases to balance the state budget and fund education.
The decision sets aside the state constitutional amendment requiring at least two-thirds support of lawmakers to pass tax increases. The justices ruled that the need to fund public schools, another constitutional requirement, took precedence over the need to approve tax increases by a two-thirds supermajority.
I am fervently hoping there's more to this than is in the story. Granted, it's not just a whim of the court, but a matter of one constitutional requirement overriding another one, but where does this kind of thing stop?