England’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Legislative immunity attaches to the acts of state executive branch officers only when they are exercising the state’s ‘entire legislative power with respect to’ the matter at issue. Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union, 446 U.S. 719, 734 [ 100 S.Ct. 1967, 1975 ]. ... Although the Governor of West Virginia is intimately involved in the state’s budget process, his participation clearly does not qualify for .legislative immunity under Supreme Court of Virginia . The West Virginia Constitution requires the Governor to submit a detailed budget bill to the legislature____ The legislature may amend the bill ... but the Governor has an item veto over the bill as finally passed, which can be overridden on an item-by-item basis only by a two-thirds vote in each house. ..'. Thus his responsibilities regarding the budget, though considerable, clearly fall short of an exercise of the state’s entire legislative power to appropriate monies.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mandel v. O'HARA