So, the court's "stay" on the NM Gov's order expires in less than two weeks, what do you suppose the next step will be?
Good question. She's so desperate to get in the good graces of national politics she might just cool her jets for the duration. At the very least, she'll just toe the line for a while and do nothing more.
I keep thinking she'll put in another mask mandate.
NM has a tendency to want to imitate the coastal politics. That may be the reason we're able to keep a massive Air Force Base here in town. It's likely how the state gets a lot of funding from federal agencies to keep us out of the poor house. It's
definitely how the state gets political contributions from wealthy democrats.
We have a 30 day session of lawmaking at the beginning of every other year and the in between years are a 60 day session. Last session was a 60 day session and it was scary for a while there. They put up somewhere around a dozen draconian gun laws but only passed one. This year, a 30 day session, they don't have a lot of time to work so it's possible that they won't put a lot out there.
With any luck, though, the Republican minority in the state gov't will make good use of the new political capital the governor just handed to them and they'll be able to put out some effective changes. Including stripping away the governor's power to put out emergency edicts.
We're such a backwater state, it's unbelievable.
--Wag--