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There bipartisan stars aligned briefly this session, most notably on the issue of rescuing historical horse racing games in the commonwealth and a decision to drop impeachment petitions, but the overall dynamic has been one of tension between an overwhelmingly Republican legislature and a lone Democratic governor.
"Whether it's emergency powers or the governor's office of agriculture policy," Beshear said there are "a number of other bills out there about stripping governors — this governor — of authority that every other governor has had."
This week, Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd temporarily stopped the implementation of three major priority bills designed to rein in the executive, which are likely to end up before the state Supreme Court.