Zac Schultz:
So, earlier this week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court released a 4-3 decision that ruled the statutes that empowered the Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules, or JCRAR, are unconstitutional. Now, this is the committee that's halted all sorts of administrative rules, from DNR rules to building codes. What do you view as the overall impact of this decision?

Gov. Tony Evers:
Sanity will reign — that's what I think. We've been dealing with this for all the time I've been in office, and that is this committee, mainly the leadership, were able to stop everything dead in their tracks and then things just don't happen. That just can't happen. We can't have a one-person rule here in the state of Wisconsin — in any part of it — including things like administrative rules. So, yes, we will be able to accomplish some things that we haven't done before, that the rulemaking process went to JCRAR and just went into a hole and it just disappeared. We can't have that, that's one-person rule that we can't allow.

Zac Schultz:
You mentioned the one-person rule, but Republicans are saying now this decision by the Supreme Court gives you one-person rule. They're saying that this gives you too much authority, or the executive branch.

Gov. Tony Evers:
We would just be following what we've been doing forever before this happened. So, no, there's no dictatorship here in the state of Wisconsin. There was a small one in this arena. We're going to be able to get things done.

Zac Schultz:
This isn't the only decision by the court in this last term to rebalance the scales of the Legislature versus the executive. We saw Joint Finance oversight over some Knowles-Nelson Stewardship projects be eliminated, but that meant that that didn't get funded again. Do you expect to see changes in what the legislation will actually pass in order to get around or what they're concerned about in terms of executive oversight?

Gov. Tony Evers:
Yeah, and that's a good example. We will get something done with Knowles-Nelson. We have to — whether you're Republican or Democrat — you want to make sure that our state is, you know, continues with the conservation that those two governors put forth. And so I'm not concerned about that. We will get something done. Maybe it won't be as a large amount of money available as it was in the past. It doesn't make any difference. We just have to get it done.