NAACP Missouri State Conference v. Kehoe, SC101541

… The Supreme Court of Missouri, reviewing the circuit court’s declaratory judgment, affirmed the decision. The court held that article IV, section 9 vests the governor with discretion to determine when an extraordinary occasion has arisen and to call an extraordinary session accordingly. The court rejected the argument that the governor’s discretion is limited by an objective definition of “extraordinary,” finding that neither the constitutional text nor its historical context imposed such a restriction. The judgment of the Circuit Court of Cole County was affirmed. </p> </div> <div class="-display-flex align-right"> <a href="javascript:void(0)" id="summary-read-more" data-directive="j-expand" data-section="diminished-text" data-collapsed_class="-collapsed" data-expanded_class="-expanded" data-collapsed_text="<span></span>Read more" data-expanded_text="<span></span>Collapse Summary">Read more</a> </div> <strong class="heading-6 has-margin-top-30 hidden" data-subscribed="0"> …