State Ex Rel. Sego v. Kirkpatrick

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• holding that, with executive veto power, “the Governor may not properly distort legislative appropriations or arrogate unto himself the power of making appropriations”
• holding New Mexico’s legislature could not appropriate federal funds designated to the state’s public institutions of higher learning because the state’s constitution vested authority over those funds with a separate Board of Regents
• \[The governor's power is a negative one that does not allow him to legislate by striking qualifications in a manner which distorts legislative intent.\
• \[T]he governor's power is a negative one that does not allow him to legislate by striking qualifications in a manner which distorts legislative intent.\
• private donations to state university under control of Board of Regents are not subject to appropriation, therefore legislature has no power to limit use or disbursement of these funds
• private donations to state university under control of Board of Regents are not subject to appropriation, therefore legislature has no power to limit use or disbursement of these funds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).