Wisconsin governor faces possible lawsuit for using veto to fund public schools for 400 years

Wisconsin Democrat Gov. Tony Evers faces a possible lawsuit from the Wisconsin Institute of Law & Liberty after he used a partial veto to increase public school funding for the next 400 years.

"I think objectively, it is inherently undemocratic," said Lucas Vebber, the non-profit institute's deputy counsel, Fox News reported Tuesday.

On a bill dealing with funding for the 2024-25 school years, Evers used his partial veto power Wednesday to cross out the "20" and the hyphen. The new law allows K-12 public schools in Wisconsin to increase their revenue by $325 per student every year until 2425.

The Republican-controlled state legislature passed the initial bill.

"Legal action is possible, that's something that we're looking at," Vebber also said. "I'm sure others are looking at it as well."

If the governor's partial veto remains intact, by the time Evers' change expires in 400 years, the state of Wisconsin would spend over $130,000 more per each student than it does currently, according to the institute. 

Wisconsin law prohibits the governor from removing individual letters and words to create new words, and it also prohibits the governor from eliminating words in multiple sentences and stitching them back together, Vebber also said. 

The question a lawsuit would deal with is whether the governor can strike numbers and punctuation marks to create new numbers. 

Madeleine Hubbard is an international correspondent for Just the News. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.